Chapter 236
Leaving Quanjude, the four of them headed straight for Universal Studios.
Right at the entrance, Ye Jinliang's legs already felt like lead.
The scene before them was an absolute sea of people.
Meandering lines packed every attraction so tightly that not even a drop of water could slip through, with only the massive Decepticon statue tirelessly blasting its mechanical sound effects.
Screams rose and fell in waves, making their scalps tingle.
"Holy mother of..."
Ye Jinliang clung to a lamppost and refused to let go. The aftermath of climbing the Great Wall that morning was hitting him in full force, leaving his thigh muscles aching and completely disobedient.
He pointed weakly at a bright red electronic sign nearby.
"Decepticon Rollercoaster, wait time... 120 minutes?"
"Two hours? By the time it's my turn, you might as well send me straight to the crematorium."
Pei Susu frowned as well. She checked her phone, looking miserable.
"This is ridiculous. It's already 2 PM. After lining up for two rides, it'll be dark. Did we come here just to stand around as punishment?"
Despite her tough talk, she was just a girl. After conquering the "Hero's Slope" on the Great Wall that morning, the soles of her feet felt like they were stepping on hot coals—swollen and painful.
"How about... we bail?"
Ye Jinliang looked at the group tentatively, his eyes screaming, "I just want to lie down and do nothing."
"Wouldn't it be nice to just go back to the hotel and play cards?"
"Pathetic."
Gu Ran shot him a glance and leisurely pulled four lanyards from the side pocket of his backpack.
Black and gold, exuding a premium feel.
Printed boldly on them were the words: "Universal Express Unlimited."
"Put it on."
Gu Ran casually tossed one to Ye Jinliang.
"What's this? A get-out-of-jail-free card?"
Ye Jinliang scrambled to catch it.
"A lazy person's savior, or... a pay-to-win player's cheat code."
Gu Ran's lips curled into an "I'm going to carry you guys" smirk.
"Unlimited Express Pass. No queuing. Ride as many times as you want, VIP lanes all the way."
A few nearby tourists, sweating profusely and staring blankly from waiting in line, turned their heads at his words.
Pei Susu's eyes instantly lit up. She snatched a lanyard, threw it around her neck, and gave Gu Ran a thumbs-up.
"Boss Gu is so generous! I knew it, traveling with a capitalist means we'll never suffer. We are destined for luxury!"
"Let's go."
Gu Ran took Ye Zhenzhen's hand and walked straight toward the exclusive lane marked "Express."
Suddenly, Ye Jinliang's back didn't ache, and his legs didn't hurt anymore.
He swaggered in the front, basking in the envious stares from both sides, looking even more punchable than when he had reached the top of Hero's Slope.
"This feeling of cutting the line..."
Ye Jinliang took a deep breath, looking absolutely intoxicated.
"It's so sweet! It's good to be rich!"
Ye Zhenzhen looked at Gu Ran's profile and muttered softly.
"Are you the reincarnation of Doraemon? How do you have everything in your pockets?"
Gu Ran squeezed her palm and chuckled softly.
"This is called using cheats, babe."
Five minutes later.
The four of them were seated in the ride vehicle for "Transformers: The Ride-3D."
3D glasses on, the safety lap bar clicked into place.
With a deep command from Optimus Prime, the vehicle surged into the darkness.
Over the next few minutes, weightlessness, spinning, explosions, and water sprays delivered a full-sensory bombardment.
"Ahhhh! Megatron is going crazy!!"
Pei Susu screamed in excitement, completely immersed in the battle between the Autobots and Decepticons, looking as if she wanted to rush up and hand Optimus Prime a wrench.
Ye Zhenzhen gripped the handrails tightly too. Though scared, she was mostly thrilled by the novelty of it.
The young woman's eyes were wide open, afraid of missing a single frame.
The two grown men, on the other hand...
Ye Jinliang was deathly pale, his eyes squeezed shut as he activated a "fusion of East and West" prayer mode.
"Namo Amitabha... Hallelujah... Taishang Laojun, hear my plea..."
Gu Ran had his eyes open, but his expression was stiff.
Every time the vehicle jolted violently, his Adam's apple bobbed uncontrollably.
This thing...
Completely defies ergonomics!
Who designed this?!
Coming out of the ride, Ye Jinliang was staggering wildly in an S-shaped path.
"I can't... I think I'm going to throw up..."
He clung to a trash can, looking like he was about to hurl his guts out.
"This isn't risking your life, this is ending your life!"
Gu Ran handed him a bottle of water and unscrewed his own to take a sip.
He forcefully suppressed the churning in his stomach, putting on a calm and collected facade.
"Weak is weak, don't make excuses."
"You're not weak? Then why are your legs shaking?"
Ye Jinliang exposed him mercilessly.
Gu Ran glanced down at his slightly trembling calves without batting an eye.
"This is muscle memory. It's excitement. You're still young, so it's normal you don't understand."
Before the two men could recover, an unsatisfied Pei Susu had already cast her gaze toward the deepest part of the park.
Twisted steel tracks spiraled straight into the clouds.
The Decepticon Rollercoaster.
Every few dozen seconds, a car full of people would roar past overhead, leaving behind blood-curdling screams.
"Umm... Since we're already here!"
Pei Susu waved her arms excitedly.
"We have to do this one! If we don't ride it, we might as well not have come!"
Gu Ran savored that classic and familiar phrase—"since we're already here"—and immediately felt his scalp go numb.
Hearing this, Ye Jinliang's knees went weak, and he almost dropped to the floor on the spot.
"Sister... dear sister... spare this old servant."
"I have elders above and children below... Oh wait, I don't have children yet, I don't even have a girlfriend! I don't want to die young! I haven't even carried on the Ye family line yet!"
Gu Ran looked at the nearly vertical drop of the track, his brain working in overdrive.
He did a quick mental calculation of the G-force and centrifugal force.
This thing could kill someone.
"Well..."
Gu Ran cleared his throat, trying to reason with them.
"We just ate. Strenuous exercise can easily cause stomach ptosis. Plus, from a medical standpoint, this kind of G-force isn't good for cerebral blood vessels and can easily cause a transient ischemic attack..."
Before he could finish, he was silenced by Ye Zhenzhen's half-smiling gaze.
The girl tilted her head, a sly gleam flashing in her eyes.
"Don't tell me you're... scared?"
"Scared?"
Gu Ran raised an eyebrow, staying stubborn to the bitter end.
"The word 'scared' doesn't exist in my dictionary. Only 'self-preservation'."
"Then let's go!"
Ye Zhenzhen and Pei Susu exchanged a glance. With perfect tacit understanding, they each grabbed one of the guys and dragged them toward the queue without another word.
"Help! I'm not going!!!"
Ye Jinliang abandoned all sense of dignity, letting out screams like a pig being slaughtered.
Gu Ran, meanwhile, had a look of utter despair. Letting Ye Zhenzhen drag him along, he silently calculated in his head.
If he pretended to faint right now, could he escape this ordeal?
Waiting online for an answer, it's urgent.
m back to his original world. In the end, he realized he had overthought things. [Hey, why is Shen Manni, the female lead, acting strange? Shouldn't she be fawning over the male lead at this point?] [Zhou Qiaoqiao, are you sick? Weren't you supposed to break off your engagement today?] [Damn it! An Youyi, please do your job as an undercover agent and sell my information to the protagonist, you idiot!] ... At this moment, Xu Mo himself didn't know that these female leads had already heard his inner thoughts. Then they decided not to play by the rules. Xu Mo: Please respect my profession as the big villain!
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
