When Qin Zhining finally understood what was going on, the anesthetic that the nurse had injected into him also took effect.
The moment he fell into a unconscious state, he suddenly felt uneasy.
However, it was too late. He wouldn’t be able to continue protecting Gu Nianzhi in the dark for at least half a day.
He could only pray that this was City H, and that the security wasn’t that bad..
…
Gu Nianzhi carried her backpack and walked briskly into the entrance of Disneyland.
The first attraction she entered was “Small American town.” On both sides of the street were buildings of small American villages. The walls were light smoke-colored, and the roofs were grey-blue. They didn’t look like modern American villages. Instead, they looked like old European towns from the 18th century.
“Hakuna Matata,” the theme song of the jolly Disney movie “The Lion King,” was played in Swahili, an African Bantu language. The lyrics meant “Don’t worry” and “No problem”.
“It means no worries,
for the rest of your days,
it’s our problem-free philosophy,
Hakuna Matata!”
The cheerful tune echoed in Gu Nianzhi’s ears. Bright, cheerful, warm, and high-spirited, Her mood was like the October Sun in South China.
Gu Nianzhi couldn’t help tapping the beat of her feet and dancing along with the staff dressed as cartoon characters in front of her.
She had never thought that there would be a movie like “The Lion King” here, and such good music.
She sang and danced happily with the crowd. She had never felt such a sense of complete relaxation even when she was with Huo Shaoheng in the other world.
It was like returning to her carefree childhood, before she had a strong sense of self. It was the pure, unadulterated world of a child.
When she looked at the blue sky, she saw the blue sky, and when she looked at the white clouds, she saw the white clouds.
The green trees, red flowers, grey walls, and blue tiles around her didn’t have any special meaning. As long as they existed, she felt happy.
This was the world of a pure child. It was also the period of time missing from Gu Nianzhi’s memory.
She wasn’t twelve years old when she opened her eyes.
She also had a childhood.
What was she like at that time?
Was her childhood as carefree as these children?
Was it just like the song “Hakuna Matata”? — As long as she relaxed, all the difficulties would go away?
Gu Nianzhi’s thoughts drifted further and further away, but she was pulled back by the cheerful song.
Yes, why think so much?
Sing along with cheerfulness and happiness!
As happy as a lark, she couldn’t stop laughing.
A few children heard her singing out of tune and pointed at her laughing. She wasn’t angry, but made a face at them and continued to sing her out-of-tune song, as if no one else was around.
At this point, she was still a child. Children were allowed to make mistakes, so it was natural for children to sing out of tune.
The children saw that she didn’t mind, and they were too embarrassed to laugh at her. They ran over to her and held her hand. Everyone circled around the cartoon characters and sang. Gu Nianzhi was so happy that she forgot about everything else.
For the past 30 minutes, she had laughed more than she had in the past two months.
After the song ended, she went to buy ice cream from a roadside cold drink stall.
Just as she was about to give the money to the ice-cream seller, the man suddenly asked, “Are you miss Gu Nianzhi?”
Gu Nianzhi was stunned as she held the ice-cream in her hand. “Do I know you?”
The man smiled. “Someone asked me to give this to you.”
He handed her a golden lucky star that was folded from paper.
Gu Nianzhi took it out of curiosity. As she ate the ice-cream, she walked to the side of the road and looked at the golden lucky star over and over again. She was sure that it was the “clue” that Lu Jin had mentioned.
There was nothing special on the surface of the lucky star, so Gu Nianzhi carefully opened it up.
There was a sentence written on the golden hard paper: “Find the place where Little Simba went to prove his courage for the first time and get the first gift.”
Gu Nianzhi couldn’t help laughing.
This Lu Jin was really interesting. How did he know that she liked to play this kind of game?
She turned the golden paper into a lucky star and put it into her backpack.
With an ice cream in her mouth, she squinted at the theme park.
Little Simba was the main character in the Disney movie “The Lion King”.
In the movie, the first time that he had proved his courage was — exploring the elephant graveyard!
But this was Disneyland, Where could there be an elephant graveyard?
Her long lashes fluttering like two rows of tiny fans, Gu Nianzhi blinked.
She suddenly saw the beginning of the “Dumbo Spinning World” from not that far away!
The beautiful dumbo over there must be the answer to the note!
Gu Nianzhi’s eyes lit up. She threw the rest of the ice cream in her hand into the trash can and ran towards the most beautiful blue dumbo at the front of the Dumbo World.
The dumbo here was actually a merry-go-round ride.
Each dumbo could fit two people on it, and everyone felt like they were flying on top of the Dumbo.
There were many cartoon characters, all in the same Disney style, around. They sang, danced, and were so happy that they could fly.
Gu Nianzhi ran over and smiled at the blue dumbo. “I found you! This is the first time Little Simba has proven his courage!”
As soon as she finished speaking, a cartoon character who looked like Timon from “The Lion King”, walked over to her. He smiled and gave her an exquisite pink gift box. “This is your prize. Please accept it.”
Gu Nianzhi happily took it and said “thank you” to the person. She then ran to the side of the road and eagerly opened the gift box.
Inside the gift box was an exquisite and beautiful phone.
She picked it up and looked at it. It was the latest iPhone and looked no different from the one she was using.
Gu Nianzhi raised her eyebrows and saw that there were two pieces of paper in the box, the first piece of paper read: “This is a special phone for Nianzhi. It is equipped with a graphene battery specially made for you. It has an extremely high battery capacity. It can be recharged once and can be recharged for 20 years. — keep it a secret!”
20 years!
Gu Nianzhi couldn’t help screaming.
She remembered this type of battery. In the other world, Huo Shaoheng’s mother, Song Jinning, had personally polished and made a graphene battery. It had an extremely high battery capacity and could be stored in Huo Shaoheng’s uncle, Huo Guanyuan’s cell phone. It could stay on standby for 10 years!
The graphene battery she had here had a standby capacity of 20 years!
The battery lasted twice as long as Huo Guanyuan’s phone!
Gu Nianzhi had long “coveted” that type of battery, but because the manufacturing method was too complicated and long, she had never mentioned it to Song Jinning.
Unexpectedly, in this world, her wish was strangely fulfilled.
Gu Nianzhi was so excited that her face was red.
She played with the phone for a while, then carefully put the new phone in her backpack and looked at the second note.
This was the second clue: “Find the second place where little Simba proves his courage and get the second gift.”
In the movie, the second place where little Simba proved his courage was through a canyon. There, he was chased by a group of sprinting antelopes.
Gu Nianzhi was completely engrossed in the game.
She looked up and around.
Canyon, canyon. She had to find a place that looked like the canyon in the movie “The Lion King”.
In her line of sight, she couldn’t see anything that looked like a canyon.
Gu Nianzhi took out a map that she had randomly picked up when she entered the park. She immediately saw “Grizzly Valley”.
It had to be here!
She excitedly ran towards “Grizzly Valley”.
The scenic spots there actually looked like the early days of the gold rush in the western United States, but on the surface, the grey rocks and yellow mountains looked very similar to the canyons of the Central African steppes.
One after another, “gold-rush trains” passed in front of her. Gu Nianzhi covered her face with her hands like a small trumpet and shouted, “I found you! I found where little Simba proved its courage for the second time!”
A Pumbaa cartoon character from “The Lion King” walked out of a train station room next to the canyon and handed her a second gift box with a smile. “Congratulations, miss! This is your present!”
Gu Nianzhi smiled at him and said “Thank you.” She took the gift box and held it in her arms as she quickly ran out of the valley.
She arrived at the resting area outside the valley and found a quiet place to open the gift box.
Inside the black gift box lay a photo and a car key.
On one side of the red car key was her English name, Cereus Ku, and on the other side was a galloping pony!
This was the key to a Ferrari.
Gu Nianzhi’s heart skipped a beat. Looking at the photo again, it was almost identical to the custom-made Ferrari sports car that Huo Shaoheng had given her in her previous world!
Even the sports car had a counterpart?!
Gu Nianzhi felt a little dizzy.
So fast that her heart almost jumped out of her throat, happiness came like a whirlwind.
Gu Nianzhi clutched her chest and took a few deep breaths. She tried her best to calm herself down.
She looked at the back of the photo again. There were a few lines of words written on it.
“This custom-made Ferrari sports car is waiting for you in C City. Keep it a secret!”
Gu Nianzhi couldn’t stop smiling. Lu Jin was so funny. How could she keep such a big sports car a secret?!
She shook her head and put the car keys into her backpack.
The temptation of the phone gift was too great. She would definitely take it.
But she wouldn’t take this sports car.
When she saw Lu Jin later, she would return the car keys to him.
Then she looked at the third clue in the gift box.
“Last stop: Little Simba is in danger. The Lion King’s father will go to the place where he was rescued. He will receive the ultimate gift!”
Gu Nianzhi’s heart skipped a beat, and she began to feel that something was wrong.
But she couldn’t get in touch with him. She was confused, and her mind couldn’t keep up.
She stood by the roadside for a while and looked at the children running around in front of her. She couldn’t help being affected by their joy.
She heard the song of “Hakuna Matata” again, and the light-hearted melody suddenly made her mind clear. She soon put aside all her worries and ran to her last stop.
Little Simba was in danger in Antelope Canyon.
But the place where the Lion King father last experienced danger wasn’t the canyon, but a cliff.
And the only place in the entire Disneyland that had a “cliff” was the “Adventure Forest”!
