Apocalypse Star House Hoarding-Chapter 265

The team chat was quiet for a while.
An even more absurd situation than the “Fairy Tale Amusement Park” station’s background being a star system occurred: all four members of their team were on different planets!
Ya Tong: …Damn, they even have a smoking ban here.
Yu Zhenzhen: …
Yu Xi: The amusement park’s different zones are built inside air fortresses on planets, so public areas in these places are definitely smoke-free.
Lin Wu: Air fortress? It’s impossible to distinguish them with the naked eye. Such large air fortresses require advanced technology, and using them in an amusement park indicates that the space background is already very mature, probably a space age. This also means this star system is not the main star system where humans from this world live; it’s just an amusement park galaxy. On the planets in this star system, due to environmental factors, the areas where humans can freely move are limited.
Lin Wu remained as calm and clear-headed as ever, analyzing a lot of information just from Yu Xi’s mention of an “air fortress.”
Yu Zhenzhen: Ah, I saw the virtual 3D billboard too. It said that new visitors can pick up their wristbands, and their data has been registered. So, is this a one-stop amusement park? Can we directly take a spaceship to choose a suitable zoned planet to meet up?
A one-stop amusement park means that the ticket includes everything—entrance, food, lodging, transportation, amusement projects, etc. In these kinds of parks, visitors just need to show their wristband to consume anywhere for food, lodging, and entertainment.
If this is true, it would mean they now have a different type of unlimited currency function in the station.
Ya Tong: I just picked up a wristband. There’s indeed information about inter-zone spaceship travel. The shuttle ship operates every day— but there’s only one ship per day to each zone, and travel between star systems doesn’t use warp space flight technology, so the journey could take anywhere from a day to seven days.
Comparing that with their 22-day countdown, seven days is quite a long time. Also, since this is an S-level station, the threshold could suddenly become too high, potentially closing the station and requiring them to board the train urgently. If they don’t find the hidden station in time, even with a ticket, they wouldn’t be able to board the train, leaving them with no way out.
So, after discussing, the four of them decided to proceed with a single-line approach for now.
First, each person should find the hidden station on their respective zoned planets as quickly as possible. Then, as long as it’s safe, they should try to complete the hint tasks to obtain the train ticket.
The hidden station was the most important because each of them had at least one ticket, so they had a backup plan. If they could get a ticket, great, but even if they couldn’t, once they reached the next station where the difficulty might not be as high or the station itself wasn’t as large, they could meet up and make it easier to complete the hint tasks and get a ticket.
After the discussion, Yu Xi stretched her fingers, which were cramping from all the typing.
Communication with others in the Endless Train world was inconvenient, as they couldn’t even send voice messages.
Ya Tong: Oh, I almost forgot to say, the park wristbands have friend-adding and messaging functions. You can directly video chat…
Yu Xi: …
Lin Wu: …
Yu Zhenzhen: …
An hour later, even Lin Wu, who was the farthest from the service station, arrived and successfully picked up her wristband. The four of them searched for each other’s zoned planet names and identities and successfully added each other as friends.
Since Yu Xi was closest to the service station, she was the first to pick up her wristband after finishing their discussion. She then found a chair in the plaza, sat down, and after verifying and binding the wristband, she began to explore all its functions.
The wristband was a 3D holographic screen, and inside, it indeed displayed personal identity information, including explanations about the rights and benefits of visitors who had purchased tickets for the Fairy Tale Amusement Park.
The wristband she received was a VIP-level wristband, with higher privileges, allowing free access to most of the park’s restaurants, hotels, and hotels, with a decent selection of menus and room types.
The wristband’s category menu included: Fairy Tale Amusement Park (background explanation, all zone introductions), gjgw star (including amusement facilities information, zone maps, and reservations), Accommodation (introductions and maps of various hotels), Dining (introductions and maps), Air Fortress external amusement projects (introductions and reservations), Leisure, Transportation, Weather, Emergency Assistance…
Anything a normal visitor would need could be found in the wristband.
Yu Xi scrolled to the very end of the menu and found two words that struck her as incredible.
Space.
She tapped “Space” on the holographic screen, and immediately, projections of items wrapped in bubble-like spheres appeared in the 3D holographic display.
This must be a little gift the Fairy Tale Amusement Park gives to every visitor: a set of random zone-themed costumes, a small box of skin-changing bubble gum (which changes the skin’s color randomly when chewed), two rescue signal sticks (used outside the air fortress, can project distress signals to the sky when the wristband location and messaging system fail during emergencies)…
These were all things visitors could use. While the items themselves were useful, what interested Yu Xi more was the method of taking and placing items in this space.
Since the wristband could contain space, it meant that space-folding technology was already common in this world, and there was no explanation in the wristband about how to take items from the space.
Yu Xi tried tapping on the bubble-like item projection, and the next second, the bubble immediately enlarged, and a message appeared under it asking if she wanted to take the item.
After confirming, the bubble burst, and the small box of skin-changing bubble gum appeared in her hand.
The process of taking items was clearly defined, but it was much less convenient than what she was used to in the Endless Train world, where things could be moved freely.
Then she tried to place items inside. She searched the space section but found nothing about how to place items.
Finally, looking at the floating bubble projections, she touched the holographic screen with the bubble gum she held, and the screen immediately asked if she wanted to place the item, “Skin-Changing Bubble Gum,” inside the space.
She clicked “Confirm,” and the bubble gum box returned to the item projection section.
Although taking and placing items was a bit inconvenient, this technology was still very impressive compared to her original world.
Then, she continued to explore the world’s background through the wristband and found that a day here was 28 hours long, measured in a 14-hour system. After 14:00, the afternoon time would be recalculated starting from 1:00, with the distinction recorded as “14:00 AM” and “14:00 PM.”
She remembered the countdown information she saw earlier on her phone. No wonder the countdown showed 27 hours—she had initially thought it was a mistake.
It was now 12:00 AM, which was roughly equivalent to 10-11 AM in her original world. It was not yet lunch, which was the peak activity time for visitors in the amusement park.
Yu Xi used the wristband to order a rainbow fruit juice at a nearby dessert shop, then sat back down on the bench in the plaza under the shade and began checking the Fairy Tale Amusement Park introduction and amusement facility details on her wristband.
The diameter of gjgw star was around 3,000 km, smaller than her original world’s moon. The unmodified parts of the air fortress outside had different air quality, climate, and planetary gravity from the human-friendly environment inside the air fortress.
The air fortress covered about one-tenth of the entire gjgw star, around 3.4 million square kilometers, roughly equivalent to a fraction of her original world’s Birchland country.
Compared to the entire gjgw star and the Fairy Tale Amusement Park galaxy, these areas weren’t that large, but as an amusement park zone, it completely exceeded Yu Xi’s expectations.
However, according to the introduction, these 3.4 million square kilometers were not all amusement facility buildings. The outer circle was divided into many areas. Apart from the large mechanical rooms responsible for maintaining gravity, air, and temperature inside the air fortress, it also included planting, production, breeding, mechanical factories, artificial forests… among many other regions.
After all, as a small planet, excellent ecology and self-sufficiency were basic requirements.
The amusement facilities were concentrated in the middle of the air fortress, which was also the safest place.
This area was themed after the stories of the Brothers Grimm, with each story having its own theme. A single amusement area would have one main theme and two to three supporting themes, named after the most popular story.
Additionally, each amusement area was equipped with hotels, restaurants, snack bars, shops, service stations, leisure and entertainment centers, guard rooms, medical stations, and so on.
The tall silver gate she exited through earlier was where the park’s shuttles were located. Since the amusement park was so vast, dedicated direct shuttles connected different amusement areas.
If you had to compare, these shuttles were like the small trains that go around the theme parks in her original world.
The main theme of the area she was in was: Snow White, with supporting themes: Root Feather, and Singing Bones.
“Snow White” was one of the more popular areas, with around ten amusement facilities, including various adventure, puzzle-solving, and experience attractions…
**
After finishing a cup of rainbow ice fruit juice, Yu Xi still hadn’t finished reading through all the details of gjgw star’s zones. It was just so big.
This mission was essentially to find a hidden station in a park that was one-twentieth the size of her original world’s Birchland. It was like finding a needle in a haystack.
She had no clue, and with her teammates not around, for the first time, she felt some anxiety. Ultimately, she decided to close the wristband—rather than search for clues in the data, she would immerse herself completely in the park.
There were about twenty amusement areas, and by visiting different ones every day, she could manage to explore them all before the countdown ended—no, she meant investigate all the amusement areas.
It was now just after 12:00 PM, and there were still nearly 12 hours before the amusement facilities closed at 10:00 PM. That should be enough to walk through the “Snow White” area.
After thinking for a moment, she opened the wristband to make a reservation for tomorrow’s amusement area, selected the nearest zone to “Snow White” called “Little Red Riding Hood,” and registered for the reservation.
Each amusement area required reservations for the next day to ensure the best visitor experience. Once the limit was reached, no new visitors would be accepted.
Since the “Snow White” area was the starting zone, the reservation step was waived for today.
She got up, went to the dessert shop for a cup of “Dwarfs’ Sweet Wine,” and then walked towards the nearest adventure facility.
That should be the attraction based on the “Root Feather” story, where visitors sit in scattered, feather-shaped soft seats, fasten their seatbelts, and after the glass cover closes, the seats are transported into a giant spherical amusement venue via a track.
Once the game started, the giant spherical amusement area would become a vacuum, but the seats would remain balanced inside. The soft feather seats would slowly float in the vacuum, much like the story’s flying feathers. Periodically, air jets inside the giant sphere would make the seats float randomly, enhancing the visitor’s experience.
In Yu Xi’s eyes, this was a very novel and incredible attraction.
However, when she sat in the feather seat and fastened her seatbelt, she noticed that on both sides of her, the feather seats were occupied by seven- or eight-year-old children.
They stared at her with wide eyes, seemingly wondering why an adult would be playing a children’s attraction.
Yu Xi: …
This feeling was like sitting in a mismatched kiddie ride in a mall back in her original world, waiting to start while awkwardly eyeing another child in a nearby ride, unsure what to do…
**
At 8:00 PM, after completing all the attractions in the “Snow White” area, Yu Xi collapsed onto the waterbed in her hotel room.
She was staying in the “Singing Bones” themed hotel, which was naturally chosen because the theme wasn’t very suitable for children.
The hotel building itself resembled a tall bone, with windows positioned slantingly on the “bone.” Inside, however, it was fashionable and luxurious. Her room was on the twelfth floor, about fifty square meters, with a single open-plan space. The bathroom and sofa area were not separated.
Lying on the bed, she turned her head and saw the purple-red sky outside.
It was sunset on gjgw star. The sky was gradually deepening, from light red to purple-red, with blue shades mixed in. From her floor, it looked almost dreamlike.
From the amusement areas outside, various melodies floated in the air, and she could hear the laughter of visitors. As the sky gradually darkened, the various lights in the park came on, decorating the whole area like a real fairy tale world.
For a moment, Yu Xi almost forgot that this was just an S-level station in the Endless Train world.
**
At exactly 2:00 PM, which was midnight in her original time system.
At midnight, the entire amusement park had already quieted down and entered the nightly rest period. Yu Xi was woken up by the sound of a bell. She stared blankly for a moment after waking up, not even knowing when she had fallen asleep.
Earlier, she had just been resting in bed from exhaustion. How did it suddenly feel like midnight when she opened her eyes?
A bell?
In the stillness of midnight, when all visitors were supposed to be resting, why would a bell suddenly ring?
She got out of bed and walked to the window, finding that the amusement area, which had previously been silent, had several attractions lit up one by one.
In the air, along with the midnight bell, a childish voice echoed.
—Ding… ding… ding…
—Nighttime Amusement Park: Nightmare Park has opened. Visitors selected by lottery, please immediately head to the illuminated area on your wristband and participate in the activity.
—Game Rule 1: Visitors who were selected but do not participate—dead!
—Game Rule 2: Losers of the game—dead!
—Hehehe, I’ll be waiting for you all~