A foreigner's journey

"One time, Dane and I were out for a few days. That's when something happened."

Barrett, this steely man, his voice trembled for the first time:

"The entire village of Corel was set on fire by the Shinra Army."

"What!?" Everyone except Heather shouted in shock. Tifa and Cloud didn't expect that Barret's hometown would suffer the same fate as Nibelheim.

Heather was not surprised, because it has always been Shinra's traditional style to kill people, set fire to them, destroy corpses and destroy traces.

Alice asked in shock: "Why did Shinra Company do this? Didn't you already agree to build the Mako Reactor?"

Barrett sat on the chair, covering his head with his hands, and sighed longly: "Because of the accidental explosion of the Mako Reactor, Shinra Company framed the incident on the head of Corel Village in order to shirk responsibility. They said it was the private opposition that did it. I was too stupid to believe in the Shinra Company... This is all my fault. If I hadn't lobbied everyone hard, Corel Village would never have..."

Tifa patted Barrett's shoulder lightly and comforted: "Don't blame yourself. Shinra always talks better than he sings. Anyone can be fooled."

"That's why I hate myself...because I listened to Shinra's lies, I lost my folks and friends...even my wife Mona..."

Barrett wiped his face and forced a smile: "I thought I could forget the pain by escaping to Midgar and focusing on dealing with the Shinra Company, but I didn't expect that it would still cause me pain after returning here."

No one knew how to comfort Barrett for a moment.

"Let me tell you, Barrett doesn't deserve sympathy at all!"

Yuffie suddenly jumped on the chair, put her hands on her hips and said loudly: "Anyone who trusts Shinra is a big fool! My father is a fool, and so is Barrett... Oops!"

Before she could finish her words, Yuffie was punched on the head. Heather grabbed her by the back collar, pulled her off the chair and kicked her out of the waiting room.

Although Yuffie spoke like a straight woman, Barrett didn't feel so uncomfortable when she interrupted him. At this moment, the public address system in the waiting room made a 'ding dong' sound, and then a pleasant female voice sounded——

[The cable car to Kingdee Amusement Park is about to start, please hurry up and get on the bus. Riding the cable car is completely free. Please enjoy the ride. 】

Everyone filed into the huge blue cable car, and it didn't take long for the two propellers behind the cable car to start buzzing and turning, driving the cable car along the track towards the clouds in the sky.

Passing through layers of thick clouds, what comes into view is the huge wonder building rising from the ground, which is 700 meters high, [Kingdee Playground]!

The main body of Kingdee Playground is an extremely huge tower, surrounded by several mushroom-shaped super-giant venues suspended in an orderly manner around the tower. Even the lowest venue is two hundred meters high from the ground. There are cable cars running along the track to the Kingdee Playground everywhere. Colorful neon lights form a sea of ​​light, as well as various display screens and colored billboards, which look lively under the illumination of countless mobile searchlights.

Alice and Yuffie's eyes widened. Although the Shinra Company headquarters building was also towering into the sky, it was completely inferior to the Kingdee Amusement Park in terms of scale and momentum.

The cable car went all the way up and finally entered a small venue marked [Welcome to Kingdee Amusement Park], and stopped firmly next to the cable car platform inside the Kingdee Amusement Park.

The cable car platform inside the Kingdee Amusement Park is decorated with a cheerful atmosphere, and the entrance is actually a big moogle head with a big mouth. Staff members dressed in fat chocobo and moogle costumes are greeting visitors, and signs made into Christmas trees indicate the names of venues leading to each passage.

"Moogle! I like it!" Yuffie is an avid moogle fan. She has collected many moogle dolls in Wutai. Even the stand-in stakes used in the ninja stand-in technique [Mist Lock Cloud Platform] are made of moogle dolls. Coulee doll instead.

"Don't run around, go buy the tickets first." Heather now felt like she was taking a kindergartener on a spring outing, all the effort and effort.

There were many tourists inside the station. Heather led them to the entrance of the venue. The beautiful staff member wearing a bold bunny girl costume smiled and bowed, and then asked: "Welcome to Kingdee, are you a group guest? A one-time admission ticket costs 3,000 GIL, and you can also spend 30,000 GIL to purchase a lifetime golden admission ticket."

"Thirty thousand..." Claude felt that his outlook on life had been greatly impacted. He worked hard to protect the avalanche in order to get 2000 GIL. Is the gap between rich and poor in this world so big?

Heather chose the one-time ticket without hesitation since she wouldn't come often in the future anyway.

After paying the money, the bunny girl distributed the tickets to everyone, and then bowed slightly: "Thank you very much. I need to remind you that if you leave Kingdee, your ticket will be invalid. Please pay attention. May I explain it to you? [Golden Butterfly Coin]?”

"No need." Jesse pushed everyone inside, leaving Bunny Girl smiling and bowing to everyone.

While walking along the long passage, Jesse explained to everyone: "[Kingdee Coin] is a currency that can only be used inside Kingdee. To put it bluntly, it is somewhat similar to casino chips. This thing can only be used in the game hall. , various venue events and chocobo races.”

"What kind of projects are there at the Golden Butterfly Amusement Park?" Yuffie looked eager to try it out.

"Collect cards to form a deck and then battle [Nine Palace Fantasy Cards], cultivate your own chocobo and compete with other riders in the competition [Chocobo Competition], the number of times is limited, but you only need to spend a little money." [Xianren Cai] has a chance to win the big prize, [Fashion King] competes based on daily random questions, the mahjong game from Wutai [Wutai Square City Battle], and [Guaranteed Win Flash] Killing Demons with Quick Knife], [Ace Air Force], [Jumping Leap Annihilation Battle], [Monster Shooting], [Mineral Lode Exploration], [Mushroom Ball Catching Machine] and so on..."

Jesse took the playbook handed out at the door and read:

"I've been here with the troupe before, and I won the Ifrit Summoning Stone in the [King of Fashion] competition."

Claude was surprised for a while: "Can such a rare summoning stone be exchanged as a prize? Isn't the Golden Butterfly Playground too rich?"

Heather shook her head: "Although Dio, the owner of the Golden Butterfly Amusement Park, is very perverted, his mind and skills as a businessman are undoubtedly strong."

"Brother, are we going to go directly to the city lord?" Tifa looked at Heather tactfully, and Heather, who knew her very well, immediately understood the implication - Tifa wanted to visit other venues first.

"You guys go and play, just don't get separated." It took a day and a half to track Sephiroth, and Heather felt that everyone needed a holiday.

Alice asked: "What about you, teacher?"

Heather pointed at it: "I'm going to see the city lord Dio."