After all, no matter how excellent an experienced actor is, acting with veteran actors over time can also become exhausting.

However, certain scenes caused Li Zhiyuan's heart to tremble a little.

He saw a large man squatting on the ground, gnawing on a corpse.

He saw a woman lying in a coffin suddenly sit up; she was made of Paperman, with very pale skin.

He saw a young man possessed by an evil spirit constantly hitting the wall.

He saw a man being bitten by two ghost children.

As he passed these four scenes, a change of expression showed on Li Zhiyuan's face, and it wasn't entirely an act, even though he knew in his heart that they were fake.

After walking out of the haunted house, Li Lan tidied her hair and deliberately avoided her son, not wanting him to see her frightened side.

Li Zhiyuan kept recounting the classic scenes inside, in a childish voice.

After Li Lan finished tidying up, she squatted down, looked at her son, and smiled, "Our Xiao Yuan is really brave!"

Saying this, she reached out to embrace the boy in her arms, gently patting his back, comforting him, "It's all fake, it's all fake, good boy, don't have nightmares tonight, Xiao Yuan is a brave and strong child, right?"

Li Zhiyuan slightly turned his head, looking at his mother's delicate earlobe.

He could even imagine the mocking smile forming at the corner of his mother's mouth behind him.

Perhaps, his mother knew he could imagine her expression now too.

Should he perform some heartache to cooperate with her?

Li Lan gently pushed Li Zhiyuan away, looked at his face, and saw a fleeting sadness and pain deep in the boy's eyes.

"There's a puzzle-solving game ahead, shall we go there?"

"Sure."

Li Zhiyuan continued to be led along by Li Lan.

He knew that he and his mother shared the same affliction; he often saw his mother every morning taking deep breaths in front of the mirror before going out.

But for some reason, when interacting with his mother before, he would go to great lengths to make her happy, and in addition to that, he actually could derive a very special kind of solace.

Something like satisfaction, attachment, habit, a form of reliance?

He had never truly been acting; besides acting, he had indeed invested in some other unfamiliar things.

However, this time when he came to the amusement park to play with his mother, he found that he couldn't find that unfamiliar emotion.

If he couldn't see her, it seemed alright, if he could leave her, it seemed fine too, if she wasn't in his life, it seemed like he wouldn't be so tired?

That thing… it's like it was suddenly lost forever.

Li Zhiyuan looked up towards the sky.

Did I seemingly lose a lot of things at once?

"Son, what's wrong?"

"Mom, I'm a bit tired."

"Then it's just right, do some puzzle-solving games, relax a bit."

"Okay."

The puzzle-solving area was large; it was one of the bigger activities in the amusement park, with three corridors lined up together, inside there were screens, after solving one problem, you could go to the next table.

Finally, based on the number of puzzles solved, you receive some rewards to choose from.

Of course, tickets are required, and the prizes aren't expensive; many are word puzzles or riddles, controlled well, tourists have fun, and the park makes a profit as well.

"Son, should we have a competition?"

"Sure."

The mother and son each walked to a different corridor.

There should have been a staff member behind each table, or one staff member overseeing two or three tables if less busy, but here, there was no one.

The puzzles just lay there on the tables to be answered on your own.

They didn't need to refer to the answers; what they solved was correct.

Li Lan paid the money.

The puzzle-solving began.

The first puzzle was a photo that covered the entire table, filled with identical faces, requiring you to find the different one within the time limit.

The difficulty was unusually high, as there were simply too many small photos, and it shouldn't have appeared in such a setting.

But the mother and son didn't feel anything unusual.

After all, with not a person in the entire amusement park, they didn't find it strange either.

Li Zhiyuan just glanced at it, reached out to point out the different little square, then moved around the screen to the next question.

Even he found it strange; logically speaking, no matter how good his memory was, to remember so many faces and find the difference wouldn't be this quick.

Like his mom, who was still on the first puzzle.

The second puzzle was an arithmetic problem, but it utilized a special Eight Diagram method, requiring you to substitute these special symbols to calculate the answer.

Li Zhiyuan again just glanced at it, and the answer popped out, he wrote down the answer and moved on to the next one.

He still felt odd, as if these special symbols didn't need familiarization, they just naturally animated themselves upon a glance, delivering the final result to him.

The third puzzle was a color puzzle, requiring you to use a brush dipped in paint to complete the picture on the table.

Upon a closer look at the painting, it even seemed to move, the stream flowing, the mountain breeze blowing, the atmosphere surging.

This type of puzzle shouldn't be here, even without considering the compatibility of the atmospheric rhythm, the drawing skill alone was enough to stump ninety-nine percent of people in the amusement park.

Li Zhiyuan picked up the brush, with a few simple strokes, smoothly and naturally.

The next puzzle was a jigsaw puzzle, a high stack of puzzle pieces for you to finish.

Li Zhiyuan spread out the puzzle pieces, after observing for a while, he began piecing them together, countless small blocks quickly falling into place.

He hardly thought about it, spending most of the time on the act of assembling itself.

Upon completion, it was a dragon sticking its head out from the clouds.

An average person would take days and nights to complete such a puzzle.

Before heading to the fifth puzzle, Li Zhiyuan deliberately walked back to the corridor's side, seeing his mother just completed the second puzzle and was holding a paintbrush, working on the third puzzle.

Mom, why did you become so slow?

Li Zhiyuan turned, heading to the fifth puzzle's table; due to the angle and separated by three screens, the mother and son couldn't see each other at this moment.

But when Li Zhiyuan reached the table for the fifth puzzle, he was stunned.

Because behind the table, there sat a person.

Li Zhiyuan couldn't make out this person's face, not even their clothes, just aware that someone was sitting there.

"Who the hell dragged me into a dream for no damned reason?"

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