Mystery: When the Fool Meets the Masked Fool

Chapter 164: Banana Band

At the call of the ape leader, a monkey in black came to Audrey and Klein.

"Please follow me, both of you." The monkey seemed very polite.

Klein and Audrey looked at each other, but without arguing, they followed.

After watching the two leave, the ape leader came to the bananas who were huddled together.

He showed the bananas a gentle and humble bow, and the bananas also responded politely.

The Monkey King has brought a brand new game. Come and "Exchange Bananas" for a brand new story...

Soon, Audrey and Klein entered the amusement park's playground. Audrey said she didn't have anything in particular she wanted to play, so the waiter took them to the dining area and sat them down.

A waiter in red clothes came to the two of them and served them the local specialty desserts.

Two cups of banana milkshakes and two plates of banana cake.

"Thank you, but we want to talk alone." Audrey gave the two waiters a standard aristocratic smile.

"No problem." The two waiters, one black and one red, bowed comically and turned to leave.

As if it were some kind of habitual action, Klein casually tossed a coin and then caught it.

There's something wrong with this food, Klein thought to himself.

The coin fell into the palm of your hand, and the banana pattern on the back was facing up, indicating a negative.

It seems there is no problem.

Watching Klein's actions, Audrey asked curiously, "Mr. World, are you a fortune teller?"

"Yes." Klein answered briefly.

"The divination results indicate that there is nothing wrong with these foods, but we cannot rule out the possibility that the divination was interfered with by a higher-level figure." Klein explained, casually putting the coin away.

After saying that, he picked up the spoon, scooped a spoonful of cake and put it in his mouth.

"Didn't they say that there might be situations where higher-level beings could influence divination?" Audrey asked with a hint of confusion, looking at Klein who was eating.

"If we don't eat anything, there might be some bad consequences. At least on the surface, we seem to be here for tourism. It doesn't make sense to not do anything and not eat anything," Klein explained.

"Besides, this is just a simulation. Even if something really happens, it won't be a big deal." Klein added with a smile.

At worst, you can just resurrect. This is the confidence of being a player.

"I think what you said makes sense." Audrey smiled and took a sip of the milkshake.

Looking at the stern and elegant Mr. World in front of her, Audrey couldn't help but think:

Bold but careful, Mr. World's personality is completely different from what he showed at the Tarot Club. Perhaps he was just pretending at the Club. Well, he might still be pretending now.

"Hold it."

Russell's shouts came from the roller coaster.

Klein looked in the direction of the voice and couldn't help but curl his lips. He muttered inwardly, "Emperor, if you didn't lie in your diary, you'd be at least a High-Sequence Expert by now, right? You still get a thrill from a roller coaster?"

"The Emperor seems to be having a lot of fun," Audrey said. "I feel like he's having a bit of revenge right now."

"What is revenge fun?" Klein asked.

"It's probably because I've been holding it in for a long time, and I finally caught the opportunity to go out and have fun, so I want to have fun to the fullest," Audrey explained.

"Then do you want to experience it?" Klein felt that living in the era of the Kingdom of Loen, girls would probably be very interested in this kind of amusement facility.

After saying that, he shook the coin in his hand again and added, "It shouldn't be dangerous. I just did another divination."

"Mr. World is very cautious." Audrey teased with a smile.

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Time passed by little by little, and the flow of time in Banana Park seemed to be much faster than in reality.

Soon, day turned into night.

The bell rang eleven times, indicating that it was time to rest.

The monkeys took the bananas back to the tree and they swung to sleep. The green sun shone brightly, and the sound of gurgling filled the paradise.

The Ape Chief found Klein and his two companions, who had just emerged from the bumper car area. "It's getting evening, everyone. Take a break and play tomorrow."

"No problem. Where are we going to sleep tonight?" Russell asked the ape leader.

The ape leader took the three of them to a tree. Since all three of them could fly, climbing a tree was not a difficult task for them.

The ape leader pointed to the leaves on the tree that were as wide as beds and said, "You can sleep on any of these leaves. You can choose whichever one you like."

Russell looked up at the sky again. Complex cables intertwined in the air, emitting a strange glow as intended by the designer, making him feel slightly dizzy. Then, bizarre illusions unfolded before his eyes.

A pure yellow liminal space, a row of gradually disappearing portraits, a monster hidden behind a curtain...

Finally, the sky returned to its original appearance, with clouds of various shapes floating in the black sky.

"Okay." Russell nodded with a smile.

By this time, Klein and Audrey had each found a leaf to lie down on.

As soon as he lay down, Klein seemed to have a slight spiritual movement, which made him look up in confusion and glance around.

The bananas were all fast asleep, and the monkeys also went to rest.

Nothing unusual.

Lowering his head again, Klein saw the leaves waving at him, asking if he still remembered the beauty of the tree.

"You just slept like this?" Russell asked Klein.

Klein tilted his head in confusion, not seeing anything wrong. "It's okay, go to sleep." Russell nodded.

Am I not a banana? Why is he talking to me? Klein scratched his head and chose to lie down directly, so as to stop worrying about it.

"Oh, damn it."

Russell casually grasped, and a small vortex formed within his hand. The entire Fantasy Banana Paradise suddenly began to twist, converging towards the vortex.

It was as if the filter was torn off, and Fantasy Banana Park revealed its original appearance.

Collapsed sculptures, destroyed murals, decorations with extremely saturated colors... and broken containers all over the ground make this terrain look like a prison.

After looking at Klein and Audrey, who were sleeping on two operating tables respectively, Russell looked down at a report he had found on a research ape.

A report labeled "Cognitive Experiment."

"You aliens are such a waste of talent! You're using such a great ability to do this..."

Russell turned his head and glanced at the ape leader behind him. It was a dried corpse that had been dead for a long time and was wearing researcher's clothes.

He put the report away, and then his body became illusory and disappeared from the spot.

When He opened His eyes again, He was already back in His mausoleum, on the pitch-black throne.

"Awake?" came Serris's voice.

"Hmm." Russell raised his hand, holding a distorted and incomprehensible object.

Then, Russell placed this piece of memetic contamination twisted into a paste on his forehead, feeling it slowly enter his brain.

"How does it feel?" Ceres asked from the side.

"It feels..." Russell frowned, "It's helpful, but not much."

Two different kinds of pollution were concentrated in Russell's body at the same time, but the memetic pollution of the sleeping banana monkey was obviously not as strong as that of the fallen mother goddess.

Serris took out a doll from his arms and said, "Look at this."

Russell looked over and saw it was a monkey.

"If you're infected with a meme, you turn into a banana, and then into a sleeping banana monkey. And since you're infected with a meme, you can exploit this loophole in the rules, right?"

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Klein woke up from his bed in a daze and looked around in confusion.

Where is this? Am I not in a tree?
Suddenly, he woke up suddenly.

I am!

Why do I think of myself as a banana?
He quickly lowered his head to check his body, and fortunately there was nothing abnormal.

But he noticed that he was holding a cone of light tightly in his hand.

Klein looked at the cover of the light cone. It was a group of monkeys.

The keys of a brass organ woven from banana leaves, the steam-driven notes materialized beneath a rainbow dome.

Twelve mechanical monkeys are beating cocoa bean drums synchronously, and cotton candy clouds with bows are composing the tourists' laughter into musical notation.

In the center of the halo formed by rotating coffee cups, a shadowy figure wearing a conductor's hat was drawing energy ripples with a glowing banana stick.

With a flip of the wrist, the light cone flips to the other side.

Five-star harmonic light cone, "Paradise Concerto·Banana Orchestra".

Introduction: "Please hold the hands of your neighbors!" When the park announcement sounded, the heartbeats of all visitors were forced to synchronize.

As the fireworks sounded and streamers floated, the tourists turned into monkeys.

The teams that shared the banana chocolate fondue found that their minds began to produce harmonic resonance - a sign that the imaginary energy assimilation protocol had been activated.

A faded inscription is engraved on the control console at the deepest part of the paradise: "Those who walk alone will be erased by the sound of the whistle, and those who follow the group will receive an eternal ticket."

Don't panic, be thankful.

Countless bananas want to be monkeys, and you stand at the top of them from the very beginning."

The light cone shattered, transforming into tiny specks of light that merged into Klein's body. Klein instantly realized he had gained a brand new ability.

When he uses the Harmony Paper Man to buff others, he will also apply the "Banana Candy Rhythm" status, which will improve all aspects of their attributes.

Then he seemed to have the ability to turn others into "Sleeping Banana Monkeys".

Klein turned his head and looked at Padmeow on the table beside him.

Padomeow seemed to sense the danger and she suddenly became furious.

The next second, there was a puff.

She turned into a monkey doll wearing clothes, with two eyes looking in opposite directions, one on the left and one on the right, looking quite wise. On the top of her head was a banana-like hair.

"Banana, banana, banana?" Padu tilted her head.

…………

At 7:55 in the evening, in the alley behind the Brave Bar.

Klein walked around for a while based on his memory and finally found the dimly lit house.

He turned into a big bald man with a mask that did not completely cover his face.

He was holding a doll in his hand, a "Sleeping Banana Monkey" doll with banana hair.

(End of this chapter)