As they were speaking, another line of carousels suddenly appeared farther down the street. Instead of circling a central pole like ordinary amusement rides, they galloped along the street like real horses. From time to time, a doll person would get sucked onto one, and no matter how hard they struggled, they couldn't get off. They could only let the horse carry them to the next amusement venue.
Xu Huo and Qi Cong stepped aside, but suddenly piles of mutated snakes surged up beneath their feet. Controlled by the music, the snakes coiled around their legs and lifted them up, carrying them in a rhythmic procession toward an acrobatic performance venue twenty meters away.
Before they even reached it, the curtain at the entrance to the acrobatic tent was pulled aside. Two smiling puppets stood in the doorway, cheerfully urging them to hurry up. Inside, several doll people were being lifted and tossed around by a few half-meter-long iron hooks. Anyone who slipped free would fall straight into a pack of mutated beasts, their eyes bloodshot with hunger.
The doll people shrieked. Even when the iron hooks pierced their bodies, they still struggled desperately to cling on. In just a few blinks, they had either become food or a pile of wreckage.
The host shouted that the new performers were about to take the stage, and the audience all turned toward the entrance in unison. Xu Huo pulled himself and the snakes into the Mental Portal. After shifting locations several times, he finally got the snakes off him. Then he turned to look at Qi Cong, whose face had gone ashen, lips purple, and eyes twitching wildly.
Xu Huo took out an Antidote and injected him with it, then asked in puzzlement, "Why did you get bitten again?"
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