NOVEL NEXT Chapter 41
Chapter 41 Pickling Mo Kun
The mature male voice said, “I know, you all left her to me. Don’t worry, I won’t let you down. The annual gathering of the Brutal Pranks Gang is coming soon! It will be wonderful and should not be missed!”
The young man said, “Of course, as the second-in-command of the group, you have the right to choose the target for the whole prank first. Except for the biggest boss, all the other members of the group have to give way to you. Daddy, we’ve been waiting for your big show for a month already!”
“There is no other choice. We just set up the French branch of our Cheng Gong Investment Company. My people are so far away in France and they are busy holding a Sino-French business conference. But it’s good that I have more time to get to know her and tailor the latest game for her,” said the mature male voice.
The young male voice said, “Long Xi, you’re so lucky! My daddy has such a special love for you that he specifically invented a new game for you in this thrilling paradise in order for you and your family and friends to become our first guests of the park.”
Long Xi felt that the best way to deal with them was not to react in any way so as not to give them a sense of accomplishment. She asked indifferently, “What’s the next part of the game?”
“So anxious? Haha, for the next question, please look at the big screen,” said the mature male voice.
“What big screen?” asked Long Xi.
“Find it yourself within the paradise grounds. Didn’t the night give you a pair of eyes? Are you blind?” the young man said sarcastically.
Long Xi recalled that there was a 5D cinema with a big screen in it.
So she let her grandmother take a break and went to the 5D cinema by herself.
The door of the cinema was open and the lights were on. Long Xi plucked up her courage and ran in.
It was a cinema with a seating capacity of 2,000 people. The ceiling was five meters above the ground and the large screen was about 60 square meters wide.
A video was playing on the big screen and the main character in the video was Mo Kun.
His head was bowed, his eyes were closed and his whole body was motionless.
Long Xi was stunned. “Is he dead?”
His upper body was bare, showing strong muscles and he was wearing the leather trousers designed by Long Xi. His chest rose and fell with his breathing; he was still alive!
His hands were in shackles and he was hung in a large, rectangular glass jar, suspended by chains.
His body was immersed in whitish colored water. The water was at his chin level.
His feet were long enough to touch the fiberglass bottom, but they were suspended in the liquid, indicating that the liquid had a high density. It was like someone swimming in the Dead Sea, where the water’s density was so high that person’s body could float on the surface
Long Xi recognized the glass jar; it was the same kind of glass jar in the underwater world restaurant where they had their seafood dinner.
Moreover, she could see the reflection of a few tables, covered with the white tasselled table cloths. It confirmed her thoughts!
In a twinkling of an eye, the video was over.
A young man of about 19 or 20 years old, appeared on the big screen.
“Now, I’ll give you a question. If you pass, you can get the key to rescue Mo Kun.” The young man gave her an evil smile and his voice sounded like the one she heard before.
If you looked at him, he was quite cute. Who would have guessed that he was so evil inside?
Long Xi recalled the bronze statue of the father and son. The facial features of the young man were somewhat similar to that of the bronze statue of the son.
“Was he Cheng Yilun?”
At the bottom of the big screen were 15 lines with 15 columns of English letters and all the words seemed to be jumbled up.
“You have to find thirty English words for plant names in one minute,” said the young man.
This question was a piece of cake for Long Xi, who was good at English!
She already saw the word “mushroom” in the second line of letters and found the word “flower” in the fourth line.
So she said, “mushroom, flower, tree, cereus…”
It was not only the horizontal and vertical lines but the diagonal lines that had the English words. She said the 30 words in one breath, which took no more than a minute.
The young man’s eyes showed his surprise.
He asked, “Do you know the principle of pickling?”
And then, he seemed to think of something particularly funny and grinned, covering his mouth.
Long Xi said, “Pickling? It’s a way to preserve vegetables by using high-concentration salt liquid and lactic acid bacteria fermentation. My grandmother pickles mustard and radish. Why are you asking this?”
The young man laughed wildly for a while and then he asked, “Do you think that Mo Kun is being pickled now?”
Long Xi suddenly understood and was shocked. She asked, “Is there a high concentration of saline in the water?”
“Yeah, it is the sea water we had flown in. We also specially added ten pounds of refined salt to it. He’s been soaking in there for an hour and a half already. Rest assured, the salinity of this water is about 21 %, a little lower than that of the Dead Sea. He would have to soak for at least another hour before he dies of dehydration.” The young man laughed heartily.
Long Xi really wanted to rush into the screen to beat him up. But now it was not the time to act impulsively!
She asked, “You just said that if I pass, I can get the key to rescue Mo Kun. Where is the key?”
The young man said, “Look at the door.”
Long Xi looked towards the entrance of the cinema and saw a bunch of balloons floating into the doorway. They suddenly encountered an ascending airflow and quickly drifted to the dome about 5 meters above the ground.
There were seven balloons of different colors. A red rope hung from the string and a key was tied at one end.
Long Xi said, “So high, how can I get it?”
“That’s your problem.” The young man smiled happily.
Long Xi had to take out the only tool she had, which was the pair of little scissors.
She stood on the seat and using the sharp part of the scissors as a dart, threw it at the balloon.
Before the scissors could even reach the balloons, it dropped and almost hit Long Xi.
No, it was too far away. She had to think of other ways!
She jumped out of the seat and tried looking everywhere for any kind of tools. She found a broom behind the back door.
If she could throw this broom onto the rope in the middle of the bunch of balloons, they might drop, due to the weight of the broom.
So Long Xi stood on the seat again, aimed it at the connecting rope in the middle of balloons and threw it with all her might.
It could only be due to the blessings of Buddha. The broom hit the spot where Long Xi wanted it to.