Trembling At A High Altitude

"What... what... what's going on here?"

Yang Shunli was stupefied, both of the people in front of him could suddenly produce Gold Coins out of thin air?

"Let me explain," Aila glanced at Li Teng, and with his cue, she finally cleared her thoughts.

Li Teng gestured for her to speak.

"This mission, this so-called Death Amusement Park, is all just a dream of ours, and if I'm not mistaken, we are all still on the helicopter that flew us here, asleep. The reason we fell asleep wasn't due to exhaustion, but likely because of the gas released inside the helicopter."

"After we fell asleep, we entered this dream of an amusement park."

"Everything here is just part of our dream."

"The white woman said she saw a white-clad female ghost, which might be some kind of hint within the dream, or perhaps it was just her own illusion."

"Because of her illusion, those of us also in the dream began to have the same illusion, so we thought we saw the white-clad female ghost too."

"The result is we all saw different white-clad female ghosts, which shows that the white-clad female ghost is just a product of our subconscious."

"Since we can create a white-clad female ghost just by fearing her, or conjure a huge Demon due to hatred and persistence, then naturally, we can also produce Gold Coins in the same way," Aila explained her deductions.

Li Teng nodded, looking at Aila somewhat unexpectedly.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Aila sensed the expression in Li Teng's eyes.

"A woman, if not immersed in emotions becoming love-struck, can actually be as intelligent as a man!" Li Teng exclaimed.

"That statement clearly carries a bias against women," Aila was somewhat displeased.

"No, I've always respected women very much, in my heart, women are very great... very splendid," Li Teng quickly clarified his position.

Understanding the principle of this mission made everything else simple.

The obsession turned into Amusement Gold Coins, ensuring the trio wouldn't fail the mission due to a lack of coins.

And the white-clad female ghost existing in the illusion, as long as they knew it was just an illusion and did not harbor fear against it, it couldn't harm them.

The trio of black and white was not so lucky.

As time went on, their fear deepened, and coupled with not finding any Amusement Gold Coins, they soon all perished after their coins ran out.

In the end, Li Teng and his companions successfully completed the mission and returned to prison.

Li Teng's sentence was reduced from nineteen years to eighteen years.

...

Life in prison was very dull, no need to describe.

Soon, the next mission was announced.

The new mission was called "Lost."

There were four people involved in the mission.

As the original team of three had all survived, Li Teng, Yang Shunli, and Aila were still in one group.

But a new member was added.

She was a yellow-skinned, overseas Chinese woman named Mindo, whose father was overseas Chinese.

This mission was special, with an extra procedure before departure.

Everyone was taken into a room with several terminals, where they could select the bodily appearance for this mission.

That is, the task would not present them in their real appearance, but rather, they would soul cross into another body to perform the mission.

Though it was called a selection, there actually wasn't a choice.

There were only four characters available, two males and two females.

Both males were very handsome, and both females were very beautiful.

Li Teng and Yang Shunli each selected a male character, Aila and Mindo each chose a female character.

The contents of the mission were also quickly released.

The four characters they played were President Song Hui (Yang Shunli), the president's female assistant Wang Li (Mindo), Vice President Song Qing (Aila), and the vice president's driver and bodyguard Li Gui (Li Teng).

Song Hui and Song Qing were siblings, and the company was a family business, an investment company.

"Why am I playing the president? I don't have that kind of temperament! Can I still change it?" Yang Shunli was not confident about the role he had to play.

"The reason they chose you to play the president... mainly because you aren't suitable to play a bodyguard," Aila answered Yang Shunli.

"That makes sense," Yang Shunli found this reason sufficient.

The four characters went to a company to discuss investment cooperation, and then, at the invitation of that company, they took a yacht out to sea for leisure.

"There is a ghost among the guests."

"The task does not allow attacking or harming other guests, otherwise, it's an elimination."

"The ghost will kill a guest every day."

"The ghost carries a pass."

"Obtaining the pass is the only way to safely return to the prison."

An electronic voice announced the game rules.

"Why is it a ghost again..." Yang Shunli sighed deeply.

One shouldn't fear the knock of a ghost if one hasn't done anything wrong, but he clearly had, which now made him panic at the mere mention of a ghost, worrying that his girlfriend might return from the dead to claim his life.

"I wish I could be the ghost, I really want to return to the Living World, to see some people..." Aila's eyes were full of frustration.

As they talked, their minds suddenly became dazed.

When the four of them regained consciousness, they found they were no longer in the terminal room.

Instead, they were at... a dock.

"President Song, this way, please."

A man dressed in a suit gestured to Yang Shunli, who was playing Song Hui, with a 'please' gesture.

Aila's face turned pale as soon as she saw the man and the woman beside him.

"Recognize them?" Li Teng noticed Aila's expression.

"Richard and Gemma! That despicable couple!" Aila whispered fiercely into Li Teng's ear.

"..."

Li Teng didn't know what to say.

This plot...

"The rules restrict us from killing guests..." Aila gritted her teeth hard.

"Don't get too excited, I'll figure out a way to help you get your revenge," Li Teng whispered to comfort Aila.

Exposing their identities right now would not be good.

"Yeah." Aila tried hard to control her emotions.

"Miss Song doesn't look too well?" Richard noticed Aila... he clearly couldn't recognize Aila in her changed appearance.

"She didn't rest well last night," Li Teng answered for Aila.

"It's all right, Miss Song can have a good rest once we get on the yacht," Richard said to Aila with a sycophantic expression.

Aila, unable to bear looking at him, leaned on Li Teng's shoulder and retched a few times.

"Is Miss Song feeling a bit carsick? Zeka, bring some motion sickness medicine for Miss Song!" Richard called out attentively.

"No need," Aila coldly rejected Richard.

As they talked, they arrived at the pier.

However, the yacht that was supposed to be here was not by the pier.

"Zeka, where's the yacht? What's going on?" Richard questioned Zeka.

"It was definitely booked! I'll make a call to check." Zeka hadn't expected this situation and quickly picked up his phone to dial a number.

Li Teng took this opportunity to look around.

There were four people on their side, and equally, four accompanying them.

Richard, Gemma, Zeka, plus a female staff member whose name was still unknown.

Was one of the tourists a ghost?

Which one could it be?

Did the ghost have a pass to leave?

The mission process was quite straightforward.

First, figure out who the ghost was.

Second, steal the pass from the ghost.

But clearly, both tasks were not easy to accomplish.

After Zeka made the call, a middle-aged man came from a distant house.

"Where's the yacht? Where's the yacht we agreed on?" Zeka angrily rushed to confront the middle-aged man.

Booking a yacht for the boss and important guests, only to arrive at the pier and find no yacht, was making the boss very unhappy!

"The yacht should have been back by now, but... I don't know why it hasn't returned yet," the middle-aged man said anxiously, also looking toward the sea.

"You should have told me beforehand! Now that the guests are here, you tell us the yacht hasn't returned? How am I supposed to explain this to the boss and these guests?" Zeka was quite angry.

"I just spoke with the yacht's pilot and tour guide; they said they would be back on time, probably just a few minutes more. Don't worry, just wait a bit," the middle-aged man said, placing his hand over his eyes to scan the sea again.

"Don't worry? You're not the one standing here with your back against the wall! The boss is already upset, how can I not be worried?" Zeka was fuming.

"Then explain it to your boss! It's not like we did this on purpose," the middle-aged man replied, also getting upset.

"What kind of attitude is that?" Zeka, hearing the middle-aged man's response, became even more displeased and pushed him.

Unexpectedly, the middle-aged man stumbled, tripped over the low rope barrier at the edge of the pier, and fell directly off the pier.

With a 'thud!', the middle-aged man's head struck a protruding wooden pile.

Right then, a large wave surged over, splashing water and making a loud sound at the pier's edge, masking the sound of the middle-aged man falling into the water and then pulling the unconscious middle-aged man away with it.

Zeka was stunned by the scene.

Moments later, as he turned his head to call for help, he found that everyone else was chatting and had not noticed his side, so he swallowed back what he was about to say.

From the distant sea surface, a horn sounded, and then a yacht sped towards the pier.

The sound of the horn drew Richard and the others' attention, and they stopped talking to look that way, with none of them asking Zeka about the middle-aged man's incident, clearly none of them had noticed the man falling into the water.

Li Teng noticed, but Li Teng didn't want to say anything.

"Director Lin! The yacht is here!" Zeka shouted to Richard in an attempt to disguise his concern.

"Yes, I see it," Richard acknowledged, no longer angry with Zeka after spotting the yacht.

The yacht soon approached the shore.

Three blonde-haired, blue-eyed Western tourists, three men and one woman, disembarked from the yacht.

The female tour guide saw them off the yacht, exchanged pleasantries, collected her tip, and then turned to face Richard and his group.

"Was the yacht cleaned up? We had an agreement to rent this yacht; why are there still people on it?" Zeka complained to the guide.

"To clean it entirely will take at least half an hour; how about you wait at the dock in the meantime?" the guide asked Zeka.

"What's with that? Your service... We paid good money, and we get this kind of service? Sit on the dock and wait another half hour?" Zeka was infuriated but refrained from pushing anyone this time.

"There's no helping it; sometimes it's hard to manage time at sea," the tour guide shrugged.

"Director Lin, what should we do? The yacht isn't cleaned up yet," Zeka cautiously asked Richard for instructions.

"Such important guests, and this is your arrangement... you..." Richard was clearly unsatisfied.

"It's alright, let's board the yacht. They can clean while we head out to sea," Yang Shunli, playing the role of Song Hui, interjected to mediate.

"Ah, I'm sorry about this," Richard's expression softened after hearing Song Hui's suggestion.

Thus, everyone boarded the yacht.

They reached the yacht's deck.

The female guide then entered the cabin to continue cleaning.

The yacht's pilot stepped out of the cockpit, pulled out his mobile phone, and made a call.

For a long time, no one answered, but the faint sound of a ringing phone could be heard.

Following the guardrails along the yacht, guided by the faint ringing, the pilot found a ringing phone outside the dock's rope barricade.

At that moment, Zeka also spotted the phone and his face turned slightly pale.

Clearly, it was the dock guard's phone. The guard had just been pushed into the sea by him, but the phone ended up left behind.

"What the hell?" The pilot pocketed the phone, stepped off the yacht, picked up the dock guard's phone near the rope barricade, and walked towards a distant building.

"Hey! We're all here; what are you doing running off?" Zeka, feeling guilty, shouted at the pilot to cover his nervousness.

Of course, his biggest concern now was whether the pilot going into the building and not finding the dock guard would result in a call to the police.

"I'll be right back! Two minutes," the pilot, hearing Zeka's rebuke, waved the phone in his hand and quickly ran toward the building.

Although he didn't return within two minutes, he came back in less than five.

Upon returning to the yacht, the pilot didn't ask anyone anything and went straight back to the cockpit.

Zeka breathed a small sigh of relief; it seemed the pilot hadn't suspected anything, possibly thinking the guard had accidentally dropped his phone. So he returned the phone to where the guard lived and then prepared to sail the yacht out to sea with everyone aboard.

Li Teng pretended to chat with Aila but was silently observing every detail and rapidly analyzing the situation in his mind.

Of course, the first order of business was to figure out who the "ghost" was and who had the greatest suspicion.

Then, he needed to steal the pass.

He had no idea what the pass looked like; the task only mentioned it was on the ghost.

Attacking or causing harm to other passengers was not allowed, so forcibly searching them was definitely out of the question.

Coincidentally, the passengers were Richard, Gemma, and their group, who were clearly intertwined with Aila's past grievances.

This mission was quite complex indeed!