I created the myth of the Great Old Ones.

Lu Ban wasn't sure what day it was. He took out his phone and checked the time. It was late at night on the 6th. He had spent the entire day at the amusement park, but it felt like only a few hours had passed.

Lu Ban's phone suddenly vibrated. He received several messages and missed calls. It was as if he had been in a place with no signal and suddenly received a signal.

He briefly replied to a few important messages, including Li Zijian's inquiry, then put his phone away and wrote down the last rule on a sticky note.

[Rule 9: Please be sure to visit the souvenir shop before leaving the amusement park to purchase a souvenir. Teddy bears are your best choice. If you can't tell which one is a teddy bear, please ask the staff wearing yellow uniforms for help.]

After finishing writing, Lu Ban turned around and walked back into the amusement park.

……

Jenny, a student at Uptown Third High School, found it unbelievable.

She and her classmates were just going on a spring outing to the amusement park when suddenly three people barged into the park with a dog. They wouldn't let them leave the amusement park and even knocked them unconscious.

It wasn't until evening that one of the men left the amusement park and then returned, ordering all the tourists present to go to the souvenir shop to buy things and to ride all the attractions before leaving.

Good heavens, they want to ride every ride, even the carousel, which is something only little girls ride?

Well, to be honest, Jenny has always wanted to ride the unicorn carousel. Back in elementary school, that was a privilege only the most popular girl in the class got, while she usually only got to ride on the bear's back.

After riding the carousel and reluctantly trying all the other rides, Jenny and her friend went into the souvenir shop.

The store is filled with a wide variety of goods, including dolls, transformation devices, magic wands, and other items that appeal to everyone from boys to men, from little girls to older girls.

Jenny looked around and settled on a pink fox plush toy.

Although she doesn't usually like buying these kinds of souvenirs, considering them a waste of money, she had no choice but to buy them since the violent woman outside was demanding they do.

"You can't buy this. According to the rules, you should buy this."

At that moment, the handsome guy who was preventing them from leaving the amusement park picked up a plush toy and handed it to Jenny, while taking the pink fox from her hand and placing it on the shelf.

"what is this?"

Jenny glanced at the doll in her hand. It had round, brown, fluffy ears and a face like a cat's, but with a more endearing appearance.

"This is a teddy bear."

The handsome man said to let Jenny pay the bill.

"A teddy bear? How could that be?"

Jenny found it somewhat amusing. She had clearly seen teddy bears before, and this didn't look like a teddy bear at all, so why insist on calling it a teddy bear?

But it's quite cute. Jenny bought the doll and noticed that every tourist outside had one.

Could this person be a distributor of these toys, and is here running around trying to boost sales?

Jenny didn't quite understand. It was already late, and she and her companions walked towards the amusement park exit. There were many other people like them, all with confused expressions on their faces.

It felt like the weather outside had changed completely after spending a day at the amusement park.

And it's so cold.

Jenny felt very cold. She remembered that it should be early summer and the weather should be hot. Why was it so cold at night? It even made her feel like it was winter!

Upon arriving at the entrance, Jenny saw a staff member in a red uniform.

"Hello, are you leaving the amusement park?"

The staff member asked in a friendly manner with a business smile.

Yes, that's right.

Jenny replied that she showed the staff the teddy bear she was holding, just as the handsome man had suggested.

"We hope you enjoyed all our attractions and look forward to your next visit."

The staff member took half a step back to clear the way.

Jenny continued walking with her friend, seemingly understanding but not quite. Thick fog surrounded them, and she felt a bone-chilling cold and damp night wind. She heard the sound of flowing water, as if they were beside a river.

Suddenly, a bright light pierced through the thick fog, illuminating the space around Jenny.

The girl quickly covered her eyes, and through the gaps between her fingers, she saw that they were people wearing windbreakers, who looked like search and rescue team members.

At the same time, Jenny's phone suddenly started vibrating violently.

She hurriedly took out her phone to check and found messages and missed calls from her parents, school, and some people she knew or didn't know.

There are over a thousand of them!

"What's going on here?"

Jenny was incredulous when she heard the voices of the search and rescue team members speaking English.

"Please don't panic, stay where you are, you are safe now."

"Safe?"

Jenny and her friend exchanged a glance, then looked back at the amusement park they had just left.

The place was in ruins, a scene of desolation and abandonment.

Just then, Jenny's phone rang again. She saw a notification; it was a news article from earlier this year.

"January...January!??"

I clearly entered the amusement park in May, and now it's already next year???

Where did they go during those middle months?

Jenny felt her mind was in complete chaos. Reality was crashing into her brain, making it impossible for her to think. She started crying, broke down, felt incomprehensible, and collapsed to the ground.

At that moment, Jenny saw the teddy bear in her arms.

The adorable teddy bear gives people a sense of security.

Jenny hugged the teddy bear to calm herself down.

She suddenly realized that it was indeed a teddy bear. Why had she thought it wasn't a teddy bear just now?

If this is a teddy bear, then the teddy bear I saw before...

Jenny's brain stopped thinking.

Chapter 465 Great idea, I'll go first!

"...According to our reporter, most of the missing tourists have been found by the rescue team. Currently, most of the tourists are in good health and are undergoing further examinations..."

The news anchor was reporting on the incident at an amusement park near Jiangcheng. Qin Tiantian was playing games while listening to the news intermittently.

"Ok?"

As she listened, she felt like the thing sounded familiar.

After thinking back, Qin Tiantian realized that it might have been something that Lu Ban, Feng Yu, and the girl named Xi Ya had discussed during dinner that day.

With that in mind, Qin Tiantian decisively gave up thinking about it.

Instead of worrying about these things, let's think about what to have for dinner tonight.

"But this time the commotion is quite big."

More than 100 people were rescued from the amusement park.

This included a company organizing team building activities, a high school on a spring outing, a family of three passing by, and even a film crew shooting a TV series.

More than half of them were only discovered missing through loopholes in financial statements, audit results, and some written documents.

The other half were only remembered by their families and friends after they were found.

Some office workers, and even their companies, didn't realize that this person was missing, and things continued to operate normally.

Because it involves many countries around the world, television stations from all over the world came to Jiangcheng to report on it, trying to get first-hand information.

However, when people interviewed some tourists and found that they hadn't felt anything and had only spent a day at the amusement park before leaving, they realized that the amusement park might be the problem.

However, when the cameras turned to the amusement park, these reporters, who were faster than athletes, discovered that the amusement park had disappeared.

You won't find this amusement park anywhere else in the world.

It appeared and disappeared silently, as if it had never existed, existing only in the memories of those tourists.

This is a real paranormal event!!!

On well-known domestic forums discussing paranormal events, speculations about this incident abound.

[Holy crap, is this the closest paranormal event to us? There have been practically no paranormal events since smartphones became widespread, this one is really big!]

[Next to Lingjiang River, at the foot of Jiangcheng Mountain, I remember there were some paranormal events there before, like villagers going missing. Is that area really haunted?]

Is this similar to the Bermuda Triangle, where tourists accidentally enter some kind of time rift, and while several months pass outside, they only experience one day?

[Speaking of which, isn't this thing next to that reality game? Lu Ban's choice of location is quite deliberate.]

My aunt's classmate knows a tourist who went missing. She said the tourist disappeared last January and hadn't been seen for a whole year. Who knew they would be found here?

Is this amusement park like the Dragon Palace, where one day inside feels like a year outside?

[Speaking of which, what was Lu Ban's reaction to this? Isn't he the one who loves doing this kind of thing the most?]

Do you guys think Lu Ban might make a movie based on this, something like "The Amusement Park Horror"?

You might as well say that Lu Ban just built an amusement park on the same spot, claiming it was created by the original team.

[Great idea! I'll go first!]

Meanwhile, in a hotel somewhere in Jiangcheng, Jenny, who had calmed down, looked at the man in front of her.

“I’ve said it many times, I didn’t see anything strange at the amusement park, and no one kidnapped us. Those things only happened before we left the amusement park.”

She repeated the words she had already repeated many times.

These are members of the investigation team. A special investigation team jointly established by various countries is responsible for investigating the disappearance case at Jiangcheng Amusement Park.

Tourists like Jenny, who recovered some mental sanity after their breakdowns, became the focus of the investigation.

However, the investigators believed that what Jenny said might have been seen by someone who was mentally unstable.

What kind of teddy bear is this? It's not a teddy bear at all. There's also a violent woman who beat everyone down and insisted on playing all the attractions before leaving, which is unbelievable.

Investigators generally believe that these tourists may have been abducted or kidnapped, but failed to expose the kidnappers due to Stockholm syndrome.

After all, some people travel from Europe to Jiangcheng and disappear for several months in between. It's impossible for them to go without food or water and remain undiscovered.