My brother entrusted his child to me, and I livestreamed raising the baby, making the Empress cry wi

When Xiaodouzi came out of the bumper car area, he still had that same carefree and cheerful smile on his face as he had when he was chasing and bumping into Duoduo.

My hair was a bit messy from the frequent movements while driving, and my ahoge (cowlick) was sticking up even higher than when I left home in the morning.

Duoduo walked beside him, recounting the battle to Xiaodouzi as they went, gesturing with her hands when she got excited:

"Ling'er, did you see that boy in the green car I just hit? He flew way over there! Aren't I super cool?"

Little Douzi also imagined that scene and immediately burst into laughter: "Yeah, yeah! He even tried to run me over, but thank goodness Duoduo knocked him away. Duoduo is a racing god!"

Duoduo chuckled, feeling an immense sense of accomplishment for protecting her younger sister, and she walked with such joy that she swayed from side to side.

Lin Ye glanced at the time; it was already past noon. He then took the two children to a restaurant in the park for lunch.

The restaurant is a wooden house-style building with a cartoon dinosaur dressed as a chef standing at the entrance, holding a small blackboard that reads "Today's Special".

Pushing open the door, the warmth instantly blocked out all the chill from outside.

The restaurant was quite crowded, but not noisy. Each table had a warm yellow lamp hanging above it, with a woven rattan shade that cast delicate circles of light and shadow on the table.

The air was filled with the irresistible aroma of fried food. Lin Ye took out his phone and ordered two different children's meals for the two of them, which they had specifically requested.

After the food was served, the two little girls began to share the food from their respective plates.

Duoduo put the fries one by one into Xiaodouzi's plate, and Xiaodouzi handed the chicken nuggets one by one into Duoduo's plate.

They chattered away as they ate, talking about everything from bumper cars to pirate ships, and then from pirate ships to carousels.

Lin Ye sat opposite them, listening with great interest to them talk about some details he hadn't noticed.

He slowly and deliberately cut his own steak, then put it in his mouth, occasionally feeding Xiaodouzi a bite as well.

Aunt Li prefers a light diet, so she didn't join them and went to eat at another restaurant by herself.

After finishing their meal, they met up at the shop entrance and instead of going back the way they came, they continued walking directly into the restaurant.

The first attraction you encounter after leaving the rest area is the Fantastic River Cruise.

"Fantasy River Cruise! I've been on that before!" Duoduo jumped up and down excitedly as soon as she saw the entrance sign.

Then she held up one finger and, with an air of expertise, loudly introduced Xiao Douzi:

"There's a crystal cave inside, the rocks are so beautiful, they glow! And there are super huge mushrooms that glow too!"

The people of the Great Flame Kingdom were filled with curiosity about the unheard-of things that Duoduo was talking about.

[Commoner Sun Da: Fantasy Drifting? That's a nice name! Drifting... does it involve traveling by boat?]

[Commoner Liu Xiao: Crystal cave? What's that? The stones glow? Could it be a luminous pearl?]

[Commoner Wang Er: Mushrooms can glow? And they're super—huge! How big is that? I'm so curious what they look like…]

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The entrance is a white domed building with its exterior walls covered in continuous vines and mushrooms.

The vines were painted with fluorescent paint, giving them a faint blue-green glow even in the daytime.

Climbing from the base of the building all the way to the top of the dome, every tendril of the vines is drawn extremely fine and long, weaving together into a huge net.

The mushrooms came in all shapes and sizes; some peeked out from the gaps in the vines, while others crouched in corners, their caps dotted with fluorescent spots.

The spots subtly reveal their vibrant colors in the sunlight; even though they are not glowing now, one can imagine what they would look like in the dark.

Above the gate hangs a wooden plaque, which is made into an irregular oval shape with the original rough texture of the wood remaining on the edges.

The words "Fantasy Drifting" are written in a playful and rounded font, with each character consisting mainly of curved strokes without any sharp turns.

The moment I pushed the door open, a warm, humid breeze rushed out, hitting my face and leaving it feeling hot and slightly damp.

Xiao Douzi blinked unconsciously, a thin layer of mist forming on her eyelashes.

The air carried a faint damp smell, not the musty kind, but a clean, almost post-rainy scent of the mountains and forests.

It also had a hint of the bitterness of moss and the subtle sweetness of some unnamed aquatic plant.

It was like living in a completely different world from the park outside, which was filled with dry, cold north winds.

The queuing lane meanders along an artificial river.

The river is about two meters wide, and the water is a deep blue color, illuminated by LED strips hidden underwater.

Several round, inflatable boats floated on the water.

The hull is off-white, with a thin metal pillar standing upright in the recessed middle, and a small warm yellow lamp supporting the top of the pillar.

Each boat can seat four or five people, and those currently on the boat are leaning against the side of the boat.

Some pointed to the glowing mushrooms on the shore, some whispered to the people next to them, and some simply looked up quietly at the cave ceiling, which was dyed deep blue by the lights.

The riverbanks are man-made fairytale scenes. Looking from the queuing area, the whole space looks like a fairytale world that has been moved into a cave.

On one side is a forest of glowing mushrooms.

The mushrooms varied in size; the larger ones had stems that were taller than the entire body of the small mushroom, and the edges of their caps curved downwards.

The small mushrooms huddle together in clusters, their stems as thin as a finger and their caps only the size of a palm, peeking out densely from the moss.

Their colors mostly transition from bright white to deep blue.

The brightest white is at the very center of the canopy, then the color gradually deepens towards the edges, finally settling into a very thin, deep blue halo around the edge of the canopy.

There were also a few pure white or pure blue ones. They emitted a soft glow under the dim light.

Several glowing butterflies perched on the mushroom cap, their wings a translucent pale purple with fine fluorescent patterns.

Occasionally, a passing boat would trigger the mechanism, causing it to flap its wings and fly up, leaving a purple trail in the air before landing on another mushroom.

On the other side is a crystal cave.

The jagged crystal pillars hang down from the cave ceiling, varying in length, the longest almost touching the water, and the shortest only as long as an arm.

They were illuminated by LEDs hidden in the rocks, making them sparkle, and the color of the LEDs was not fixed, but slowly changing.

The crystal pillars also slowly changed color, from cool white to warm yellow, from warm yellow to light pink, and then from light pink to sky blue...

The irregular facets of the crystal pillar refracted light, scattering it across the water and into the mushroom grove on the opposite bank...

The light also fell on the railings of the queuing area and on the faces of the tourists, casting flickering spots of light on the faces of everyone in line.