Big Brother, Play With Us

It was eleven o'clock at night, on the outskirts of the southern part of the city.

The taxi driver repeatedly apologized to the passenger in the back seat, "Little brother, I'm truly sorry. That dark area ahead is Doll Island Amusement Park. I've heard it's haunted, and I really don't dare to go any further."

Qin Feng got out of the back seat, handed over the fare, and patted the driver's shoulder. "Thank you for your hard work, driver. You can head back now."

He walked through grass that came up to his knees, and a rusty iron gate appeared before him.

Half the paint had peeled off the large characters "Doll Island Amusement Park" on the gate. The remaining letters were crooked, casting eerie shadows in the moonlight.

The iron gate was slightly ajar. Qin Feng gave it a gentle push.

"Screeeech—"

Amidst the ear-piercing sound of metal grinding, the gate slowly opened.

The scene behind the gate made Qin Feng raise an eyebrow slightly.

Colorful neon light strips snaked along a small path, illuminating the entire park in a dazzling display.

The carousel in the distance was slowly rotating, playing crisp and pleasant music box melodies.

The giant Ferris wheel in the distance operated quietly, with each cabin lit by a warm, cozy yellow light.

This didn't look like a place abandoned for over a decade at all. It was clearly still an... operating amusement park?

"Interesting." A smile curved Qin Feng's lips, and a faint silver glint flashed in his eyes.

In an instant, the entire "fairytale world" shed its disguise in his eyes, revealing its monstrous true form.

Those colorful neon lights were actually wisps of pale, cold ghost fire, swaying silently in the air.

The horses on the carousel were all dolls with missing limbs, their hollow eyes burning with blood-red light.

The Ferris wheel in the distance was covered in rust, looking like it could fall apart at any moment. Each cabin was curled up with an indescribable mass of darkness.

"Wow! Big brother!"

A childish voice came from the side. Qin Feng turned his head and saw a little girl, about seven or eight years old, jump out from a flower bed next to the path.

The little girl was wearing a pink puffy skirt and had two cute pigtails. She looked like a delicate porcelain doll, gazing at him with big, watery eyes full of curiosity.

"Big brother, are you here to play with us?" The little girl hopped over and affectionately tugged at Qin Feng's clothes.

Qin Feng looked down at her, his face instantly putting on a gentle, harmless smile. "Yes, little one. What's your name?"

"My name is Xiao Mei!" the girl said with a sweet smile. "I have lots of friends too! Big brother, will you play with us?"

As soon as she finished speaking, several more children emerged from the shadows, from behind the facilities.

"Wow, there are so many children." Qin Feng crouched down to be level with Xiao Mei, his voice as gentle as flowing water. "Aren't your parents worried about you staying out so late?"

Xiao Mei tilted her head and thought innocently, "We don't have parents. Big brother, will you play with us for a while?"

The other children also gathered around, chiming in noisily:

"Yes, yes, play with us!"

"Big brother looks like he'll be fun to play with!"

Amidst their chattering pleas, several lines of cold, silver text slowly materialized in Qin Feng's vision:

[Target Locked: Lost Children - E-Class Anomalies *5] [Sin Points: 10 * 5] [Rule Analysis In Progress: They will guide their prey to the depths of the park through "games" to offer to a more powerful entity. Core Rule: Prey must participate willingly; if prey shows fear, the game will accelerate.]

Four walking E-Class experience points, with a clue to a hidden boss thrown in.

The smile on Qin Feng's face became even more "sunshine bright." "Okay, then big brother will play with you. What should we play first?"

"Yay!" The children erupted in thunderous cheers. Xiao Mei clapped her hands. "Let's go on the carousel first!"

A group of "children" surrounded Qin Feng and led him to the carousel.

"Big brother, you ride that white horse!" Xiao Mei pointed to a magnificently decorated white horse. "That's the prettiest one!"

In Qin Feng's spiritual sense vision, that white horse was the skeleton of a horse with half its skull missing, its hollow eye sockets burning with two balls of eerie green ghost fire.

"Okay." Qin Feng sat on it naturally.

The ghost fire in the horse skeleton's eye sockets flickered violently, as if sensing something unprecedentedly confusing.

As the music started, the carousel began to accelerate.

The smiles on the faces of the "children" gradually became distorted.

Xiao Mei's pigtails floated eerily in the windless air, and beneath Xiao Ming's baseball cap, a pair of blood-red vertical pupils, not belonging to a human, were revealed.

"Big brother, is it fun?" Xiao Hong, sitting on a painted pony, asked, looking back.

Her neck had twisted to an impossible angle, almost 180 degrees, her neck bones emitting a chilling crack.

"It's quite fun," Qin Feng said, still smiling. He even gave her a thumbs-up. "It's just a bit slow, not exciting enough."

The sinister smiles on the faces of the little ghosts froze simultaneously.

Qin Feng asked with a smile, "By the way, you said new friends come here every day. Where are they now?"

The four little imps exchanged glances and put on bright smiles again.

"Them..." Xiao Mei drew out her words, "They had so much fun they decided to stay! They're all in the innermost castle now, playing with our 'older sister'!"

"Yeah! Red Skirt Sister!" Xiao Ming added excitedly, "She loves playing hide-and-seek with the big brothers the most!"

The carousel slowly came to a halt, and the imps eagerly jumped off, crowding around Qin Feng to go on the pirate ship.

When the massive ship reached its highest point, the rusted chains groaning under the strain, all the tourists would scream in terror.

But Qin Feng, at the peak, let go of the handrails, spread his arms to the chilling wind, a look of enjoyment on his face, shouting, "Higher! Faster!"

This time, even the imps responsible for rocking the ship were stunned, momentarily forgetting their mischief.

An hour later, the group of little Anomalous Events was clearly losing steam. They had used every trick to scare him, but this big brother in front of them wasn't even a little bit afraid; he was having more fun than they were. He'd even asked to go to the haunted house, pointing at a real hanged ghost inside and saying, "The special effects makeup on this guy is so realistic."

"Big brother, do... do you want to meet our Red Skirt Sister?" Xiao Hong blinked, pulling out her last trump card, "She'll definitely, definitely make sure you have even more fun!"

"Of course I want to meet her," Qin Feng said, looking at the few imps who had run out of tricks. The smile on his lips gradually turned playful, "But..."

He leisurely took a fruit-flavored lollipop out of his pocket, tore off the wrapper, and dangled it in front of the imps.

"Before I meet your sister, big brother wants to play a new game with you all first."

"New game?" Four inhuman eyes lit up simultaneously, a glint of greed flashing within them.

"Yes."

Qin Feng slowly stood up. The gentle, approachable smile on his face, at this moment, began to turn cold and dangerous, like a perfect mask peeling away. His voice deepened, carrying an undeniable sense of finality.

"This game is called..."

He paused, his gaze sweeping over them as if they were mere inanimate objects.

"Sending lost children home."

The moment his voice fell, he flipped his right wrist, and a pair of antique-looking scissors, gleaming with a deadly silver light, appeared in his palm—the [Scissors of Truth]! Moonlight seemed to flow along the blades, and the air around them began to hum faintly!