Highway rest area.
A black Mercedes-Benz covered in dust slowly drove in from the highway and parked accurately in a parking spot.
*Click.*
The passenger door opened, and Sonoko rushed quickly toward the restroom.
Lin Yi, on the other hand, laughed heartlessly.
That crazy drifting journey just now had literally scared Sonoko into wetting her pants.
But thinking about it, anyone sitting in Sonoko's position would have been scared into immediate incontinence by things like smashing through wooden guardrails to take shortcuts.
But such a thrilling thing was something Sonoko could only experience with him.
Glancing at Sonoko's seat, the smile on Lin Yi's face gradually faded. He shook his head helplessly—he was the one who scared her into wetting herself, and in the end, he was the one who had to deal with the aftermath.
"As they say, what goes around comes around; the heavens spare no one..."
With the smell of urine in the car, Lin Yi had to get out to buy some cleaning supplies to clean it up.
Since they were at the rest area, Lin Yi also stopped by the cafe to sit for a while, allowing Sonoko to have a cup of coffee and calm down.
Sonoko downed three or four cups of coffee in a row, only managing to calm herself down after consuming a large amount of caffeine.
She glared at Lin Yi and said through gritted teeth, "You can't mess around like that anymore! Otherwise, I'd rather take someone else's car than yours!!"
Lin Yi laughed and said, "I couldn't even if I wanted to... we're only fifteen minutes away from Yamanashi Prefecture, and the traffic has increased. I have to drive carefully."
"It better be like that..."
Sonoko let out a long breath, still reflecting on Lin Yi's shortcut-taking methods.
From the perspective of the situation at the time, those actions were indeed full of danger.
But remembering it afterward, Sonoko felt an extraordinary sense of excitement to some extent.
After all, things like smashing through wooden guardrails and driving into ditches to take shortcuts... even with money, one might not be able to experience it.
Thinking of this, Sonoko couldn't help but glance at Lin Yi: "While it's a bit frustrating, I have to admit your driving skills are indeed top-tier... where did you learn to drive?"
Lin Yi took a sip of coffee and said, "Crazyracing KartRider."
"Get out. You're not allowed to mention Crazyracing KartRider in front of me ever again!"
Sonoko said angrily, because that round of "Crazyracing KartRider" had literally scared her into wetting her pants.
This would become an unerasable stain on her life.
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After resting at the rest area for a while, the two set off again.
Along the way, Lin Yi checked Sonoko's favorability from time to time and found that her favorability was very stable, with no significant increases.
In other words, Sonoko had not entered a yandere state.
This made Lin Yi a little puzzled.
Why hasn't it triggered yet? What's missing?
Recalling Ono Yoko's state before she became a yandere, Lin Yi hadn't done anything extra before she entered that state herself.
As for Xiao Lan, it was because a mature woman who was jogging deliberately seduced Lin Yi; she only entered the yandere state after witnessing it on the spot.
There was no common ground between the two.
They could only be temporarily divided into active and passive.
In all this time, Sonoko hadn't become like Yoko Okino, so she clearly couldn't passively enter a yandere state.
She could only be triggered by some event, like Ran, and then actively enter a yandere state.
But what are the conditions for active triggering?
Like Ran? After getting jealous, she can enter a yandere state?
While pondering, Lin Yi quickly arrived at the world's scariest haunted house—the Thriller Labyrinth.
As soon as Sonoko got out of the car, she was attracted by the abandoned old hospital in the distance, and she even began to vaguely look forward to it: "We're here! We're here! I wonder what it's like inside! Is it scary enough?!"
Lin Yi didn't pay much attention to the haunted house. He got out of the car and looked at the time. From departure to now, it took an hour and forty minutes, minus the half hour in the rest stop, which is an hour and ten minutes.
The two-hour drive was compressed to one hour and ten minutes, saving a full fifty minutes.
If he could change to a better car, Lin Yi estimated that he could be even faster.
"Yi! Hurry up!"
Sonoko couldn't wait to grab Lin Yi's arm and walked towards Fuji-Q Highland.
After buying two general tickets, Sonoko went straight to the Thriller Labyrinth and bought independent tickets again.
But there were people queuing in front, and Lin Yi and Sonoko had to wait half an hour.
While waiting, the two saw people coming out of the haunted house exit.
Some screamed and ran out, with horrified expressions; some walked out slowly, but their expressions were not relaxed, obviously with tense faces, holding back; some people were even crying and being helped out by "ghosts."
In short, no one could come out easily.
"So scary…"
Sonoko grabbed Lin Yi's hand very hard. Before even entering, she was already nervous.
Lin Yi said, "Why don't we… forget it?"
"No!"
Sonoko said with incomparable determination: "I want to go in and see if it's as scary as the rumors say!"
"But you're very scared," Lin Yi grabbed Sonoko's hand and put it in front of her eyes, saying, "Look, it's already starting to shake."
"I… I'm excited!"
Sonoko hurriedly found an excuse to cover up, "It's because I'm excited that I'm starting to shake!"
"Oh… is that so?"
Lin Yi smiled and didn't expose Sonoko's lie.
He just picked up the haunted house introduction that came with the ticket and slowly read, "It is very likely to be scattered by ghosts during the tour, and in the end, you will advance alone."
After hearing this, Sonoko's body became even tighter. She hurriedly said to Lin Yi, "After entering, you must hold me tight! Did you hear me?"
"I heard, I heard," Lin Yi smiled.
Just then, someone interrupted their conversation: "That… excuse me."
The two looked over and saw a bespectacled, elegant woman interrupting their conversation.
"Are you two planning to enter the Thriller Labyrinth together?" the bespectacled, elegant woman asked.
Lin Yi's heart moved, knowing that this was an opportunity for Sonoko to be jealous, so he nodded and said, "Yes."
"Then… can I join you?" the elegant woman said embarrassedly, "Originally, I came with my friend… but she doesn't like haunted houses very much, so I came alone…"
"I don't have any problem… it depends on my girlfriend," Lin Yi decisively said that he didn't mind, and then looked at Sonoko.
The elegant woman also focused her gaze on Sonoko.
Sonoko hesitated a little. After all, haunted houses are more meaningful for couples to go together, but if she refuses, the other party seems a little pitiful. After all, if one person can't form a team, they won't be able to play.
Seeing Sonoko hesitating, Lin Yi put the Thriller Labyrinth's introduction in front of her and pointed to the line "may be scattered by ghosts" twice.
Sonoko raised her eyebrows and immediately said to the elegant woman with a smile, "Sure!"
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