After receiving her not so answer but that cleared her doubts, Hong Li-Wei stayed silent while enjoy her moment with Hai.
They silently walked through the ground floor and saw the rest of the tanks before proceeding to the first floor.
All this while, Hai has been paying attention to Hong Li-Wei and he noticed that although she didn't show it in any moment, she was behaving as if a weight has been taken from her heart. She was more anxious about her question than what she knew.
Looking ahead, they both arrived at the first floor and this one had less tanks but they were bigger than the ones in the floor below.
Walking while holding hands, both of them approached a tank and looked inside it.
Hong Li-Wei seemed to finally get over her feeling from before and was more responsive this time.
"Woooaaah…" She uttered while looking at a bigger tank containing several fishes inside it.
To Hai's joy, those were simple and more normal fishes.
She took her phone out and started to take more pictures.
Hai looked at the fishes inside the tank and noticed that although they were in an aquarium, a place for people to enjoy, there were some rather lethal fishes.
He saw a swordfish with a silverish glow.
He identified that fish was made of sea's silver, a highly resistant material that can even be compared to reinforced tungsten.
Deciding to not comment on the possible slaughter those little creatures are able to do, Hai kept looking at them.
"*SIGH* I really love fishes." After some seconds, Hong Li-Wei muttered on the side.
Right now, there were only a few people around them but none in a 2 meters radium from them.
Hai kept looking at the tank and opened his mouth.
"Just a curiosity: do you also like eating aquatic animals?" He was quite curious if she was the type that loves and don't eat or hunt them.
To his surprise, she nodded.
"Although I like them, I also like their taste. So, yes, I do eat them." She said while checking the pictures on her phone.
Hai looked at an…
Eel with swords?
He looked at the curious animal and asked her a question.
"If I was to dress myself as a fish, would you also eat me too?"
Hong Li-Wei stopped on her tracks and her mind went blank.
After a few seconds, her eyes widened, her cheeks flushed and she snapped her head towards Hai.
"Wh-What are you saying!?" She yelled in a hushed tone as she saw some people looking over them, most likely due to hearing Hai's words.
Not bothering with them, Hai turned to her.
"Are you sure you want me to repeat it? Very well then-" His mouth was quickly covered by her hands.
He looked at her and saw she glaring at him with a red face.
Hai barely managed to control his facial expression to not let a smirk slip on his face.
His sadism was at its highest nowadays.
"Dad, what is that man doing?" A little kid looking at Hai and Hong Li-Wei suddenly asked his father.
The father, slowly turned to look at his son.
He peacefully smiled and patter his son's head.
"That isn't a man, son. That is a chad." The father said to the kid.
The kid looked confused at his father but nodded nevertheless.
"Let's watch that master and see if we can learn some tricks. I need to deal with that old h- Ouch! Ouch!" As the man was going to finish his words, his wife that was silent besides him suddenly pulled his ear.
She glared at him and he shut up.
The family silently turned to look back at Hai and Hong Li-Wei.
On Hai's side, Hong Li-Wei was almost starting to beat him up.
Hai kept doing small teases to her without being too pushy or crossing the line and the result was marvelous. Hong Li-Wei was looking at him with a rather vulnerable gaze, something that a bunny would probably do.
This time, Hai failed to control his smile.
He smiled slight seeing her in this state.
When Hong Li-Wei saw his smile, she could hold back anymore and started to repeatedly punch his shoulder.
Hai felt as if a feather was touching him every time she hit him, but he wisely shut up and let her vent out.
Sadly, Hai forgot that simply shutting up is not enough in some cases.
After realizing that her punches had no effect on him, Hong Li-Wei raised her right knee and kneed his little brother.
Hai looked at where she was going to hit and simply stood still.
*THUD*
Hong Li-Wei widened her eyes and held her knee with both hands.
"Ouch! Ouch… What are you made of?" She asked while rubbing her slight red knee.
Although she didn't put much strength on her attack, she felt as if she tried to kick a wall of titanium.
Hai raised an eyebrow at her question.
"You don't think I spent years doing the iron crouch challenge for nothing, right?" At his question, she finally remembered the times where Hai would lay on the ground and curse himself for the stupid idea of doing that challenge.
"…" Not replying anything, she simply walked off to the next tank.
Happily smiling, Hai walked behind her.
Hai follows the philosophy that for a man to have a happy relationship, he must know how to lose while not losing. He knows that once his relationship advances to marriage or something equivalent to it, his women can have a subtle change.
The "I'm right change".
Although not all, some women change a bit once they marry and enter a "stronger" relationship with a man. They become more firm and as a consequence, become more dominant in their house or about their choices, and this sometimes leads to them being kind of a "I'm right" woman.
And men being men also don't disappoint. Some men also change once they marry and they seem to become more stubborn. This coupled with an "I'm right" woman is the recipe to divorce or a disastrous relationship.
Knowing this, Hai treads on a fine line of not being a pushover but not always wanting to win. He basically "plays defensive" when it comes to arguments or when his women are annoyed.
Looking besides him, Hai saw that Hong Li-Wei was taking photos of the fishes inside the tank while pouting.
He smiled playfully but said nothing.
After watching the fishes for some time, the decided to go to another floor as this one was more for fishes and nothing else.
Like this, they spent a few hours looking around the aquarium and having fun.
They laughed while looking at some animals.
They felt scared seeing others.
But all in all, they felt that today was a great day.
After they spent some hours in the aquarium, they felt that the place was becoming boring, so they changed places.
They left the aquarium and went towards an amusement park.
When they arrived there, Hong Li-Wei raised an eyebrow and looked at Hai.
"An amusement park?" She asked since this is quite a cliché place to go in a date.
Hai shrugged his shoulders.
"I'm not the most creative when coming up with places to go."
She looked at him blankly. Her gaze clearly said that she didn't believe him.
How can someone almost cause the world to end several times but can't find good places to date?
That is bullshit, but she remained silent.
They entered the amusement park and passed through most of the attractions.
After walking for 5 minutes, they came before one attraction a bit different from others.
It was a rollercoaster, but there were few people on the line.
They entered the line and waited for two minutes before the thing was ready for its next ride.
Everyone got on the vehicle and buckled up.
Hai and Hong Li-Wei sat together and took something out.
Hong Li-Wei took a small ball with lenses that started to float and Hai took out some popcorn.
Then,
"To all the passengers, please buckle up, our ride is going to start in 30 seconds." A voice sounded from the frontmost part of the vehicle.
Everyone checked to see if their belt is alright and properly buckled up.
Then, after 30 seconds, the voice sounded once again.
"To all the passengers, please enjoy your ride….."
"TO HELL!" The voice suddenly distorted and the vehicle took off.
*SWOOSH*
*FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU*
In less than 2 seconds, they were already outside the station and raising at astonishing speed.
Everyone in it was wide-eyed due to the suddenness of what happened and the strong winds blowing didn't do anything to help.
Hong Li-Wei was using that small ball to take some pictures of the city and of some people's face who seemed to want to cry.
Hai meanwhile was eating popcorn while admiring the scenery.
This level of speed isn't enough to give him enough adrenaline to be like those people.
Hong Li-Wei was also calm as she has gone through worse in the Nexus Net and in real life.
But both of them were enjoying each other's company while the people around them panicked.
The ride suddenly arrived at its highest point and stopped.
Everyone fearfully looked around and then below.
They were literally above the clouds.
*GULP*
Nobody knows who was it, but someone gulped and almost everyone followed this action.
Then…
*TING*
The ride suddenly started to move again.
The vehicle started to descend and after less than 3 seconds, it had already picked up quite the speed.
The people on the ride were screaming in panic or cursing themselves for choosing this hell-ride, but the vehicle seemed to speed up even more.
Hong Li-Wei this time felt a greater force on her body due to the wind and leaned on Hai.
Hai cleaned one of his hands with magic and patted her head.
He kept caressing her head while eating popcorn and watching some souls leaving some people's bodies.
The ride seemed to not be happy with the current suffering and speeded up even more.
The surroundings started to blur and they quickly passed through the rails that went underground.
*VUUUUUM*
With a loud sound of wind blowing, they entered the underground in grand fashion by coming face with lava once they entered.
There was a sea of lava that spilled some lava geysers from time to time a few meters below the rails and no ground in sight.
The ride kept its speed and didn't lower it even when they arrived at rails that made loops.
"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"
"MOMMY!!!"
"WE ARE GOING TO DIE!!!"
"F****CK!!!!! I DIDN'T EVEN MANAGE TO HAVE SEX YET!!!!"
"Sucks to be you, man! Try harder on the other side!" Hai screamed in response to the last one.
Then…
*WOOOM*
*WOOOM*
*WOOOM*
With sickening moves, the ride sent most people's breakfast to their throat and some even to the sea of lava below them.
Hai kept looking at their faces and enjoying it while also patting Hong Li-Wei. He specially liked to caress the area near her bunny ears, as that area would be more sensible.
*FOOSH*
The ride suddenly went up and out of the underground, however…
Everyone suddenly found themselves in the air.
There were no rails anymore. The vehicle was free falling to the ocean below them.
They didn't know when, but they had arrived at the ocean and were falling right into it.
Everyone screamed their lungs out while watching the water growing closer and closer.
Hai stuck his head out and looked below them just to see some vague outlines inside the water.
He covered his popcorn with a mana barrier and turned to Hong Li-Wei.
"Sweet, hold your breath for some seconds, okay?" Hong Li-Wei faintly nodded.
*SPLASH*
They fell on the water and as they were tied to the vehicle, they could do nothing except sink.
*BUBBLING*
*BUBBLING*
A few seconds later however, they passed through a light blue barrier and everyone felt they could breathe again.
The ride then started to move on the trails that this light blue tunnel had.
Then, they looked around and saw several creatures and animals swimming through the water without paying them any mind.
They gradually started to calm down but they couldn't completely.
The ride suddenly made a turn and started to go back in the direction they came from.
However, the speed this time was something else.
A transparent barrier appeared around the vehicle and Hai noticed that the speed increased to something that even a troll with their sturdy build would have trouble dealing with.
They kept approaching the coast from where they came off, but the rails didn't go back on earth or went above the ground.
The rails were a ramp coming out of the water.
They arrived a few meters away from the ramp and the ride's speed suddenly exploded.
As if a videogame's car that the player suddenly used the nitro, the ride blurred and shot up.
*SWOOOOSH*
They quickly picked speed mid-air and arrived at a point where they could see a great part of Hong Kong.
However, their surprise didn't come from this, but from the fact that there was a high-tech plane passing through where they would be going.
The thing was going horizontally from them and they would eventually collide against it as they were going straight to its path.
Everyone started to scream once again but Hai looked at the plane and saw rails on its top, more specifically, from one wing to another.
'Smart.' He thought.
The ride went towards the plane, clashed on top of it right on the rails and speeded again.
Then, they went at the ramp on the end of the plane's wing and were shoot again.
They flew several kilometers in the span of some seconds and arrived back at the park.
They kept falling towards the station from where they started this ride.
While falling, the ceiling suddenly opened.
They entered through the ceiling and fell right on the rails again.
This time however, the vehicle used of anti-gravity propellers and landed like a feather on the trails.
*DING*
"We have finished our ride. We hope you have enjoyed the little tour."
Everyone didn't wait for the voice to finish speaking and were already unbuckling their belts and running away from this sick attraction.
Hong Li-Wei raised her head and looked around.
"They are already leaving?" She muttered when she saw everyone running.
"That was fun." Hai said and also unbuckled his belt and got up.
He turned to Hong Li-Wei and extended his hand.
"Shall we go?"
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