Chapter 112

The viewers hadn’t expected things to unfold like this—

They had thought a powerful character had arrived and were feeling nervous for the streamers—only to find out it was an acquaintance?

The key point was that the acquaintance didn’t seem to want to see Shi Jian at all. He even turned off the lights, trying to pretend he wasn’t there?

Shi Jian went ahead and lit him up directly with her flashlight, leaving him nowhere to hide.

By all appearances, the situation was completely unfavorable for the streamers: surrounded by explosive little balls, nowhere to run, and now caught by an authoritative staff member... But because of Shi Jian’s presence, the atmosphere somehow shifted—Shi Jian’s side seemed to be winning in sheer aura!

Viewers: Can’t help but ask, Shi Jian, looking at his actions and expression—does he look like someone who wants to cherish this fate?

Forcing the "don’t waste it."

Also, any veteran viewers here want to share what traumatic experience this poor guy had under Shi Jian’s hand that left him this shaken?

We want to hear it. We’re curious!

From the bits of info Shi Jian let slip, the four-person team vaguely guessed that this Manager Tang must have crossed paths with her in another instance.

Tang Tian, who knew a bit more, glanced at the man nearby and, struck by inspiration, asked Shi Jian, “Is this the butler you’re always talking about?”

“That’s right.”

Shi Jian nodded, her smile growing even brighter.

Manager Tang caught that too, and his eye twitched... Being "frequently mentioned" by Shi Jian?

Not exactly something to be happy about.

...

The long-time viewers of Shi Jian’s personal stream were already exploding with excitement. Her audience was highly loyal—many had followed her from the beginning.

They all chimed in with explanations:

Butler Tang, a.k.a. Little Tang, and occasionally referred to as—the pitiful servant of a superstar.

Butler Tang was the first ghost Shi Jian encountered in her rookie instance. He used to be arrogant and dismissive, but ended up reluctantly serving Shi Jian. She had pestered him so much that when she finally cleared the instance, he didn’t even show up to see her off.

[Didn’t think Butler Tang would make a comeback. My youth returns!]

[Butler Tang, were you serious when you turned off the lights? The superstar was so friendly—don’t make her sad. (dog head emoji)]

["Don’t Waste It"]

Veteran viewers watching pitiful Butler Tang getting completely steamrolled by Shi Jian’s presence—it was like celebrating New Year’s early.

New viewers, hearing all this, could only exclaim, Good lord. Even if they hadn’t witnessed it themselves, just from the description and Manager Tang’s behavior, it was easy to imagine.

Shi Jian was still over there waving. “Butler Tang, help us out.” Asking him to get them out of this plastic-ball trap.

Lei Xiao fell into contemplation: was it really feasible to ask a clearly supernatural NPC to help them?

Nowhere left to run, Manager Tang stayed silent for a moment before accepting reality and turning the lights back on. He looked at Shi Jian with thinly veiled irritation and said, “Stop shining that flashlight at me.”

Shi Jian didn’t take his anger seriously at all. She replied with a casual “Oh,” and only then slowly moved the flashlight away.The main thing was—now that the lights were on, the flashlight was basically useless and couldn’t dazzle him anymore.

What Shi Jian didn’t expect was that the other party flat-out refused to admit he was Butler Tang.

He introduced himself, “Miss, you must be mistaken. I’ve always been the manager here at Dreamland Amusement Park…”

He sounded serious and righteous—almost as if it were true.

But trying to act in front of Shi Jian was like showing off martial arts in front of Guan Gong.

Shi Jian crossed her arms and asked coldly, “Really? I don’t believe you.”

Did he really think she wouldn’t recognize him just because he changed clothes? His appearance, height, voice, and those signature vertical pupils were exactly the same!

Manager Tang forced out through gritted teeth, “…It’s true.”

Anyway, Manager Tang was dead set on denying being Shi Jian’s acquaintance. They were already in Dreamland, so he didn’t want to be under her control anymore—as some goddess that his “master” longed for.

Manager Tang scanned the group and asked with a hostile tone:

“What are you all doing here?”

“This is the staff-only area…”

The other streamers couldn’t help but feel nervous in the face of this interrogation, carefully weighing their words, afraid of saying something wrong.

“Little Tang…”

The one who spoke—still Shi Jian.

Manager Tang: “…” Got a bad feeling about this.

Shi Jian cut him off before he could throw his weight around.

She had already figured out what Butler Tang was thinking. Since he didn’t want to be recognized as an old acquaintance, Shi Jian was fine with that. Totally fine. In that case—

“Could you release your six gods first?”

Shi Jian looked at Manager Tang as she asked.

Manager Tang frowned. Gods?

Shi Jian said with conviction, “Customers are gods!”

Isn’t that right?

Since Butler Tang didn’t want to admit his identity, Shi Jian wouldn’t force him to treat her like a goddess longed for by his master.

She’d just be his god instead.

Far from elevating Butler Tang’s position, this somehow seemed to lower it even further.

After thinking it over, Tang Tian and the four-person team couldn’t help but smile. No flaws in that logic.

Tang Tian chimed in, “Exactly. Manager Tang, forget everything else for now—just get us out first. The rest isn’t important…”

Six gods awaiting Little Tang’s rescue.

【Hahahahaha—Butler Tang thought pretending not to know her would free him from Shi Jian, but instead he gained several gods to serve.】【Yacht X66】

【Bouquet X999】

【Rocket X10】

Gifts and comments filled the screen. The audience felt that just based on this first clash alone, Little Tang should just give up struggling.

…

Then Lei Xiao realized—it actually was possible to have a ghost rescue them.

Manager Tang, utterly reluctant, had no choice due to his identity setting and begrudgingly released Shi Jian and the others from the encirclement of plastic balls.

Lei Xiao was also aware that under normal circumstances—aside from during berserk phases—ghosts in the instance were under certain constraints. Otherwise, how could streamers, as ordinary people, even hope to survive?

But at the time, they were just trying to avoid danger. “Didn’t think we could order them around.”

Lei Xiao’s other teammates also joined the quiet discussion.

“Seriously, wouldn’t have dared.”

But someone had done it.

Lei Xiao and her teammates all looked at Shi Jian—not far away, handling things with the ease of a movie star dealing with a relentless paparazzo.

The "paparazzo" was Manager Tang.

“How did you all get in here? Don’t you know this is a staff-only area?”

And the answer?

“We wandered in by mistake,” said Shi Jian. “Didn’t know.”

She really had wandered in by mistake. She didn’t know anything. What about it?!

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Tang Tian had already quickly shut the archive room door. With the lights on, the whole space was visible, and Shi Jian’s group didn’t see any obvious surveillance devices in the corridor.

Of course, even if there were, it would still count as "accidental entry."

Shi Jian: “Why don’t you guys put up a sign or something…”

Seeing the situation shift from trying to punish Shi Jian to possibly being extorted by her, Manager Tang immediately said, “I have a meeting to attend. Visitors may leave now. This is a restricted staff area. Do not come back again.”

He lowered his voice and gave Shi Jian a pointed stare. “You won’t be this lucky next time…”

Shi Jian tilted her head. “Hmm?”

“Sorry, didn’t catch that—could you repeat it?”

“Are you threatening a visitor, Manager Tang?”

Shi Jian held up her phone—already switched to recording mode.

Manager Tang: “……”

Please, let this god leave already....

The main gate slammed shut in front of the six of them. Lei Xiao pointed out with some excitement, “There’s probably an important clue inside.”

Shi Jian and Tang Tian agreed.

If they were only suspicious before, then the frequent incidents after entering—and running into Manager Tang—further proved that the office building likely held clues they needed about the amusement park’s closure.

Shi Jian was thinking about something else—

If she could encounter the Butler Tang in this new instance, then could she also see the Monster Mother?

The pixelated-headed executive at the transit station had hinted at the possibility. Now, it seemed confirmed.

Thinking of this made Shi Jian energized.

She also wanted to ask Butler Tang how he had been transferred to Fantasy Park.

But they couldn’t continue exploring today. Now that they’d been discovered, the building would definitely be locked down even tighter. And another reason was that the park was about to close.

They had to return to their hotel.

They hadn’t felt like they’d spent that long inside, but by the time they came out, it was already getting dark, and the clearing-out music had started playing in the park.

Shi Jian wasn’t in a hurry. Butler Tang was the manager of the amusement park—if she’d seen him once, there was no way he could avoid her.

Everyone agreed to continue tomorrow.

Tang Tian casually asked the four-person team, “Did any of you hear someone calling at your doors last night?”

The streamers were staying on different hotel floors. Including Shi Jian and Tang Tian’s floor, there were three rooms with streamers, but they weren’t too close to each other.

The humanoid monsters that acted as maintenance workers by day and security guards by night had knocked on every streamer’s door on their floor. Of course, no one opened.

Tang Tian wanted to know if this was an isolated case or if all streamers had experienced it.

And the answer was—they all had.

Lei Xiao’s teammate frowned and said, “I’m guessing tonight won’t be quiet either.”

Lei Xiao kindly reminded them, “It’s probably an enhanced mode like last night. Be careful.”

Shi Jian and Tang Tian: “……”

So the plan to continue tomorrow hinged on surviving the night.

Whether it was the attractions or the nighttime encounters, the Fantasy Park instance was ruthlessly exhausting. It didn’t let people rest, day or night. Let your guard down even a little, and it could cost you your life.

After the group returned to the hotel, they found out two more streamers were gone.

They had died during the day in an attraction-related accident.

…

And sure enough, the events of last night repeated again.

Kettles screamed and started boiling water on their own. Slippers danced and jumped across the floor... Shi Jian’s room, however, remained quiet. Viewers dropping in from other livestreams were even thrown off by the stark contrast—like jumping from a noisy city into a quiet mountain retreat.

Shi Jian and Tang Tian were applying face masks and doing their nails.At such a tense moment, you’re doing your nails?!

【Why aren’t the kettles screaming or the slippers running over here? Is it because they’re pretty—special treatment?】

Tang Tian praised Shi Jian, “Telling the hotel staff to take away all that weird stuff really made things safer…”

The reason nothing strange was happening here was because Shi Jian had instructed the hotel earlier to remove all that junk. She said she didn’t need it—better yet, take the cupboards too, just leave the bed.

While it was nearly impossible to get in contact with the hotel once something started happening at night, they could still be communicated with beforehand.

With almost nothing left in the room, what could the ghosts even use to create a supernatural event?

Shi Jian was also very satisfied with her plan—mission accomplished. √

She planned to tell Lei Xiao and the others about it tomorrow.

Knock knock knock—

A faint knocking and conversation could be heard from a distance. Shi Jian and Tang Tian both stopped what they were doing.

“Is it the security guards again?”

“Should be.”

They whispered to each other.

The two of them leaned toward the door. Because the sound came from far away, they couldn’t see that area through the peephole.

But from the conversation, it was easy to tell—it was the same routine as yesterday.

Flesh-and-blood-smeared security guards trying to sweet-talk the streamers into letting them in. But the streamers weren’t stupid—they hadn’t opened the doors yesterday, and today they definitely wouldn’t either.

Shi Jian and Tang Tian also prepared themselves for the inevitable knocking on their own door.

They could clear out the room’s contents in advance, but those long-legged, conscious guards—they couldn’t do anything about them.

However, it wasn’t like Shi Jian had predicted, where the guard would knock for a bit, then move on. She heard the streamer over there refuse to let the guard in, but then—

“Holy shit, how did the door open by itself?!”

A panicked voice cried out from that side, followed by a cascade of nonstop screaming and shouting.

A chaotic mess—fighting noises, eerie laughter, and terrified screams.

Then, it all gradually fell silent.

Shi Jian’s pupils shrank sharply. That kind of silence—it only meant one thing.

The streamer over there had clearly been killed.

The door opened on its own?

How could the door open on its own? What caused it?

Shi Jian instinctively tightened her grip on the doorknob. She glanced at the lock—it was engaged. The latch chain was also in place.

Tang Tian was stunned. “Did they accidentally bump the door open, or did they forget to lock it?”

But the moment she said it, she immediately shook her head. “Impossible.”Knowing there was danger outside the door, who would be careless enough not to lock it? Yet they didn’t hear the security guards breaking in.

Soon Shi Jian and Tang Tian found out what had happened in that room.

“Hiss—”

First came slight noises from the bathroom, then in the blink of an eye, “whoosh—”

Water sprayed out.

Tang Tian rushed toward the bathroom, signaling to Shi Jian, “The faucet seems broken… it’s spraying like crazy.”

Why would a broken faucet matter right now?

Shi Jian saw water winding quickly out from the bathroom floor. Thoughts flashed rapidly through her mind.

Her voice sounded dry as she said, “Quick, block the water! Don’t let it flow anymore!”

Tang Tian seemed to understand what was going on and her heartbeat quickened.

The guards knocked on the door; they had no way in since they weren’t opening it. But if there was a major accident inside—like a broken faucet with water flooding everywhere—wouldn’t that give the guards a “reasonable” excuse to come in?

Shi Jian felt a bit panicked but acted quickly, using towels and bath towels capable of soaking up water to block the flow coming out from the bathroom.

Tang Tian also rushed to reach and block the faucet.

They could clear many things from the room, but how could they remove a faucet?

“…Want to curse.”

The water pressure was strong; Tang Tian struggled a bit doing it alone. Once Shi Jian confirmed the water wasn’t flowing out anymore, she joined Tang Tian’s efforts.

Just as the two of them temporarily controlled the gushing water, knocking sounded “knock knock knock” on the door.

The guards, probably confident they’d succeeded, sounded excited and no longer bothered to pretend to be gentle.

“Guests, is the faucet broken? Open the door, we’ll fix it for you…”

Shi Jian opened her eyes and lied, “No, it’s not broken.”

The guards shouted again, “Making sure guests stay comfortable is our hotel’s principle.”

“For the guests’ safety, you should open the door. We’ll take care of it quickly…”

Shi Jian thought: Quickly take care of them?

She felt like they were the real danger to guests in this hotel.

Although their words sounded fine on the surface, their malicious smirks were clear.

Shi Jian even heard one of the guards quietly grumble.

“No pain, no gain. But it’s fine, we can wait…”

Their words only confirmed Shi Jian’s suspicions.

Wait for what? Wait for the water to flood out.The water pipe in that room suddenly burst as well. After the water flowed out, the security guards didn’t break down the door, and the streamers didn’t move to open it.

But the locked door opened by itself.

The door opened very suddenly, giving the shocked streamers no time to react—they were immediately facing the security guards…

The viewers in the livestream could see more clearly that the scene was very brutal.

However, the guards waited for a while but still didn’t see the water flowing out.

Shi Jian and Tang Tian were struggling hard, using great effort to barely keep the malfunctioning faucet from flooding everywhere.

Fortunately, the guards grew impatient.

Shi Jian heard pacing footsteps outside and someone trying to knock down the door.

Shi Jian and Tang Tian exchanged a glance, sensing the dawn of victory.

“Do they have a time limit too?”

Tang Tian felt the water flow, “The water pressure seems to be dropping.”

The water pressure wasn’t as intense as before. If this trend continued, it should gradually calm down.

Shi Jian thought: But we can’t just keep waiting either.

Then, since the guards didn’t get the water to flow out after waiting a long time, and naturally didn’t get the door opened, they changed tactics.

Their mocking voices became humble again: “Guests, you still have to open the door. Although there’s no problem here, we need to check the safety manual. You have to review it before you can leave.”

They knew it was hard for one person to control the water flow and wanted to distract one of them.

And no one can refuse to look at the safety manual.

Shi Jian looked at Tang Tian, “Can you manage by yourself?”

Tang Tian held the faucet tightly, as if hugging the whole world. After all, this wasn’t just about the faucet—it was about their lives.

After hearing Shi Jian’s words, Tang Tian nodded quickly, “I can. You go.”

The safety manual had to be read.

Shi Jian bit her teeth, “Hold on for a while.”

She shouted to the people outside the door, “Just slide the safety manual through the door crack.”

Although the guards outside were reluctant, Shi Jian insisted on this, and to separate them, they finally slid the manual through the crack.

Shi Jian then released the faucet and quickly went to grab the safety manual.

She couldn’t waste time; all the pressure of controlling the water flow was on Tang Tian. She had to finish quickly.

When Shi Jian reached for the safety manual, she glanced at the door crack—

A mangled human—or something no longer quite human—was lying there, laughing and watching her, its mouth stretched back to the skull, with bloody meat strands hanging from its teeth.

It was unclear whether it was its own flesh or that of the other streamers.

Shi Jian abruptly stood up, unwilling to look closer.…

The security guards saw the safety manual taken away—they were gambling.

Betting that one person’s strength couldn’t hold back the water flow.

However, before the guard who slid the manual through the crack could get up from the floor, the safety manual suddenly “whooshed” back from the other side of the door crack and hit the guard’s head.

A woman’s voice outside shouted strongly, “Finished reading.”

“You can leave now.”

The first sentence was Shi Jian’s voice by the door; by the second sentence, she had already returned to the bathroom.

Back to being the little water-blocking expert again.

Security guards: ???

Read it? In just a few seconds?

Are you doing quantum reading or what?!

Facing this doubt, Shi Jian said, “Of course I read it. I even wrote something at the back.”

The lead security guard confusedly flipped to the last page, on which two flamboyant characters were written—

“Read.”

They fell silent. Why did this scene feel so damned familiar?

One guard, furious, began furiously kicking the door.

Though the door shook nonstop, it was really solid.

Couldn’t kick it open.

He shouted, “Are you kidding? You finished reading the safety manual so fast?”

Shi Jian loudly replied, “Yeah.”

“You guys fix equipment that fast, so why can’t I read the safety manual fast?”

The security guards: “…”

No wonder this scene felt familiar—it turned out Shi Jian was using the same method they did when fixing amusement park equipment.

But they spent over ten seconds perfunctorily checking equipment and sticking on “Inspected” stickers; Shi Jian wrote “Read” in a few seconds with her own hand.

Shi Jian learned their art of perfunctory work, defeating magic with magic.