An enormously large mouth with sharp teeth reflecting the bus lights appears in front of the bus without anyone noticing when it approached. Cutlets of flesh and broken toes can be seen between the teeth.
Passengers cannot imagine how big its whole body is. Its large mouth is enough to swallow the whole bus easily.
People in the bus are frightened again and scream and everyone's hair on their arms stand on end.
Ro makes a perfect drifting, evading that mouth.
Passengers are pushed together by the drifting. During which panicking, the head of the old lady falls down again and she begins to fumble for her head on the ground.
Other passengers huddle and wish they could attack to the ceiling.
Coincidentally, the head rolls to Feather again.
It bounces and tries to get back to its body.
Feather hesitates whether she should pick it up, but Ro makes a sharp turn, another unexplainable drifting.
The head rolls into Feather's arms during that drifting while the gigantic monster is howling.
This must be the hearse drifting (灵车漂移)! ****!
Feather doesn't know what to do with the head and she is paused.
'Mr. Ginger…..'
She holds the head on her chest, but she doesn't dare to throw it away.
Ro sees her silly facial expression and feels a deep headache.
He uses one hand to control the bus and stretch the other hand longer to pick up the head, throwing it onto the body with force.
'Take care of your head. If I see it on the ground again, you will be kicked out.'
Ro speaks chillingly and the head was pressed down onto the neck with the face looking at its back.
The old lady holds her head with both hands and doesn't dare to fix its position, so her head is facing the wall while the body is facing others. With this posture, she cannot look or smile at Feather anymore.
Feather is uncomfortable as her hands are contaminated by sticky blood.
She feels secured when she looks at the back of the clown.
It would be better if his driving skill was not like that.
There is no safe belt in the bus that many people got their forehead bumped, including Feather.
Feather's back side of head is in pain as well.
The bus is in a deep dark tunnel.
The bus lights are flickering: fleeting scenes of piles of skeletons can be seen through the windows; a dot or two of green glows and dies out; the wind has gone and passengers hear liquid dripping from nowhere. It sounds like something heavier and thicker than water.
Finally, the bus comes out from the tunnel. An astonishing luxurious amusement park appears.
At the very front gate, a spectacular sign 'Abyss Amusement Park' hangs on the top. It has a rainbow of colors from blue to red which makes it old-fashioned.
It would be more outdated if it had that sort of old back ground music.
No one gets the humor.
That spectacular sign has told them where they have arrived—Abyss Amusement Park.
'Arrived. Get off.'
Ro opens the door and hints passengers to check in with their tickets.
There is only one street outside the gate of the amusement park, straight and empty. There is no other building nearby while some black shadows are flashing in and out in the air.
Passengers have no better choice but to enter the Abyss Amusement Park.
The differences might be just how long they can survive: instant death outside or slower death inside.
Ro does a head count of the remaining living people. There are 44 left.
The old lady didn't enter the park. She chose to walk onto that street and gradually became another wandering black illusion.
Feather takes out her ticket and shows it to the ticket inspector who has a red cap, a pale face, and a black outfit.
The ticket inspector checks her ticket and gives it back to Feather, waiting for the next visitor to show him ticket.
'How many more buses are coming?'
He sees Ro coming closer and tries to give a friendly smile with his stiff face.
As a result of his rigid body, his unnatural smile looks twisted.
'I do not know. Let me be the ticket inspector and you can be the driver.'
Ro takes off the ticket inspector's red cap and puts it on.
'Thank you bro...This time I can have a new suitable body. My current body is going bad.'
Feather watches that ticket inspector walking into the bus, and to the driver's seat. He drove away, and disappeared.
'There are rules on the tickets. Read them.'
After checking all passengers in, Ro takes down the red cap and leaves it on the ground. After that, he lifts Feather up away from the crowd.
Feather is not scared but everyone else is looking at her with sympathy.
Is neglect of duty ok here?
Is he not going to check tickets for the next bus of visitors?
'Tonight, you will have to pass 10 games to survive. I will help you.'
'Mr. Ginger, why do you want to help me?'
'Well, I need you to bring a thing back to the living world.'
Ro puts a red thread on Feather's wrist and another red thread has been on his own wrist already.
Then he puts a purple crystal crucifix necklace on her neck.
'If you got lost, I can find you through the red thread. After you finished 10 games and left the Abyss Amusement Park, burn this red thread into ash.'
'Follow my words.'
'Yes, I will.' Feather nods like a good child.
The two are walking on a path.
Ro walks ahead and Feather follows hard after him.
All the lights are installed near the ground. The dark green grasses dye the lights green and the green lights shine faces green as well.
The wind is gentle but chilling. It feels like something living as it licks on her skin.
Feather rubs her arms. Her gooseflesh never goes away. Without consciousness, she is walking closer to Ro and picks up his sleeves.
Ro decides to not pick on that and goes on walking.
Yes it is true that the wind in the amusement park is not normal wind. There are unformed ghosts that can only inhale something from living people by getting closer to them. It might not be a threat to living people but it will cause exhaustion.
As long as Feather is within Ro's range, those winds do not dare to come near.
If they did so, they would be crashed by Ro.
'Mr. Ginger, do you always work here?'
'Yes.'
'How many years have you been working here?'
'11 years.'
Feather does the calculation in her mind and sighs.
'What a long time...I was only 6 years old at that time.'
She guesses. Although Mr. Ginger sounds young, he must be very old now.
The first game appears—a roller coaster.
Feather will not even play such game in a normal amusement park—let alone in such ghost amusement park.
'Mr. Ginger, can we not play this?'
'No.'
The rail is rusted. Winds blow by and the rail is making a cracking sound. Feather feels all her power has been drained away.
There must not have been any maintenance.
Every time, this roller coaster can hold 6 people.
There is no one in line. Ro drags Feather onto the roller coaster while she is shaking.
What scares Feather even more is the absence of safe belt. There are only one handle at each side of the chair.
Feather shakes even more.
She is a tiny girl with delicate features on her face. Her short hair and a tartan one-piece dress to her knees make her look like a cute doll.
Her stubbornness doesn't match her appearance, but this characteristic will not work here.
'Hold tight to the handles.'
Ro doesn't need to hold the handle.
He was just recommending Feather to do so.
As long as Ro is on this roller coaster, the rail will not break. The only problem is that Feather may be thrown away during the game.
'Don't you want to know the truth behind supernatural phenomena?'
'Survive through 10 games and I will tell you.'
Ro pats her head.
Feather holds the handles with more force.
The roller coaster car rushes out without any warning. Feather closes her eyes and screams.
It wouldn't be a roller coaster if the speed is not fast.
Ro doesn't have a feeling about it and looks at the girl sitting next to him. She screams to a cracking voice while her eyes are shut.
The grating sound on the rails, the dropping of some parts of the roller coasters, and blowing of wind together are almost causing tinnitus.
The car has been upside down on the rail for a while. The sense of weightlessness has silenced Feather. Every time she thinks it must be her limit, but the next wave of more excitements always comes.
She keeps her eyes shut and doesn't dare to look.
Suddenly she feels strange...
She has been holding the handles tightly and her palms are sweaty but she doesn't dare to wipe her sweat.
****, the chair was flung away from the car...
She opens her eyes and screams. The high-pitch scream make Ro see stars.
I am going to be a muddy flesh....
Ro immediately grabs her back in his arms.
Even though Ro's arms smell bloody and decayed, Feather feels relieved.
Feather hears nothing but wind. The sense of weightlessness is blocked by the clown's cold body.
She clings to Ro's neck so hard that Ro is rolling his eyes.
'Idiot.'
Ro didn't do anything and he lets she strangle him. Fortunately, the game is not long.
Feather is actually very brave.
If it was another person, that person could have fainted and will not have such force to strangle Ro's neck.
Feather opens her eyes.
The car moves again from the stop. The game starts one more time.
Feather's scream slices through the whole amusement park.
'What a real dumb girl...'
Feather buries herself in Ro's arms. Occasionally, she looks up at Ro's chin and then buries herself again.
Even if Ro curses her, she will not let go his neck.
At such height, she will die if she falls.
The car returns to the stop again.
Ro lifts her to his chest and takes her off the roller coaster.
'Let's go.'
Feather couldn't control her shaking legs as if she did not have leg bones. She walks a step and falls onto the ground.
Ro decides to carry her on the shoulder.
Not long after they left, Ro and Feather see the roller coaster starts again. There are other visitors who are playing.
The screams from roller coaster are much louder and thrilling this time.
As the car reaches the highest point, a chair falls down. The person on that chair falls into a muddy flesh desperately.
In the second run, they scream more. One more person falls down.
Ro and Feather pass by a wooden sign of introduction of this roller coaster.
"Roller Coaster: What can be more exciting than falling down in the air? If you scream well, it may let you pass. Difficulty: 3 stars."
Feather shivers.
'Don't be scared.'
Ro failed to comfort her.
Feather is weeping.
'Don't investigate on these things anymore. Don't buy strange tickets. Don't go out alone.'
Ro pats her back.
The two arrive at the next game—Giant Stride.
Its difficulty is only 1 star.
There are players sitting and waiting it to start already. Feather recognizes some from the bus.
Ro didn't get on. Feather can make it because it is an easy game.
This must be the easiest game in the amusement park.
A chair is dangled by two ropes.
There are many chairs of such in this giant stride. As long as players can hold the ropes and not let go, they will be safe.
Below the chairs, there are countless sharp blades. If a person falls, he may become a kabob.
The game starts, and Feather clings to the ropes with a pale face.
Ro is standing outside.
The Giant Stride rotates faster and faster, clockwise and then counter-clockwise.
With such a speed, Feather's stomach is rolling. Her palms are in pain but she cannot let go the ropes.
She feels dizzied.
The game stops suddenly. Nothing falls onto the blades.
It is a matter of life and death. Everyone is strong-willed.
However, layers of blood plaque on the ground have shown that this game is not that easy for all.
'Take them back.'
Ro jumps in and kicks a blade.
He doesn't care the difficulty. If it doesn't follow the direction, he will simply beat it up.
Feather is carried away by Ro while she is still in cramp. It is the first time that she thinks this posture is good because her dizziness is relieved since more blood is going to her brain. She tries to comfort herself by thinking that maybe her intelligence will be improved after this...
These blades went back into the ground.
They can sense that the soul of this clown is powerfully bloody as if he has ended thousands of lives or more.
They will be contaminated and rusted if they don't go back to the ground fast enough.
Other players leave their chairs as well and thank Ro. Some want to follow Ro as well, but soon they have lost their targets.
The third game they arrive at is a carousel. Ro suggests Feather to not play this.
The details of this carousel are constructed well. These colorful and delicate rose carving patterns can satisfy almost every girls' dream.
The difficulty is 3 stars.
Feather looks at it and pauses.
'Do you ride horse?' Ro asks.
'I do not.'
Maybe these horses are cute and colorful in Feather's eyes.
They are however, all stooped souls for Ro.
As soon as there is a living person rides on them, they will drag him down and let that person be the horse.
'Then, we shall leave for the next game.'
Feather doesn't dare to disobey Ro's order. She follows his words.
The 3 muscular guys from the bus got on the horses.
Feather looks back every once a while. She hears whinny, the sound of hooves, and thrilling shouts...
Later, the game ends. The 3 muscular guys come out on all fours. They come out crawlingly and run like a horse.
Soon, their body grows out horse hair and a horse tail. Their palms and feet become horse hoofs, but their face is still human face.
Feather trembles.
One of them sees Feather and makes a whinny sound. Ro picks up a rock and throws at it. The 3 horses run away without looking back.