At 4:30 in the afternoon, Chen Ge stood alone in the prop room of the haunted house. He looked at the things on the table full of things and was a little undecided.
"What do I need to prepare for staying in the haunted house?"
"ID card, mobile phone, power bank, lighter, fruit knife, multi-tool hammer... By the way, you need to bring this puppet too."
Chen Ge stuffed the puppet that appeared in front of the mirror last night into his backpack. After making sure nothing was missing, he zipped up his backpack and walked out of the room.
"Xiaowan, I'm going to get off work early today. You'll lock the door later. I'm going to leave early."
"Boss, it's not even five o'clock yet, are you going on a trip?"
"The key is on the table in the prop room. See you tomorrow."
Seeing Chen Ge looking like he was about to let himself go, Xu Wan said helplessly, threw down the brochure of the haunted house, and ran into the prop room.
"This girl." The evening breeze ruffled the flyer. Chen Ge shook his head, picked up a stone and pressed it in place: "I hope she won't see me on the morning news tomorrow."
Different from the relaxed and comfortable appearance, Chen Ge was actually very nervous. He was restless throughout the afternoon.
Last night's nightmare-level mission opened the door to another world for him, and also made him clearly aware that the mission issued by the black mobile phone did have a certain degree of danger.
"Trial missions are definitely more difficult than daily missions. You must be more careful tonight." In order to spend the night safely, Chen Ge rode a shared bicycle to Ping An Apartment before dark.
The mission information only provided a place name. In order to find Ping An Apartment, Chen Ge combined the complaint message from nine months ago and asked questions while walking. It took more than two hours to reach the destination.
"If the apartment building is built in such a remote place, will anyone move in?"
The dirt road covered with weeds extends crookedly into the depths of the woods. There are no street lights around, and a dark gray building in the distance can be vaguely seen through the sparse branches.
Chen Ge asked many people on the way here, but most of them had never heard of Ping An Apartment. In the end, an old man in his sixties showed him the way and gave him a few words of kindness to dissuade him.
It was said that people had died in that place before and it was very unlucky, so people nearby would walk around it in broad daylight.
Chen Ge also had troubles that he couldn't express. If it wasn't to complete the task on the black phone, who would have nothing to do to stay in that kind of place.
"It's now six-fifty. The mission requires arriving before eleven o'clock in the evening. I still have enough time to figure out the situation in the haunted house."
Along the winding dirt road, Chen Ge entered the depths of the woods. After walking a few dozen meters, he finally saw the legendary haunted house.
The house is surrounded by dark gray high walls, with only one entrance and exit. The rusty iron door opens to both sides, and a brand new big lock is hung on the door.
"The door is so broken, but the lock is quite new. Wait, what is this?" There was a piece of white paper taped next to the iron door. Chen Ge originally thought it was a small advertisement, but after looking carefully with the light of his mobile phone, he realized that
, this is a missing person notice.
"Zhang Qing, female, 27 years old, 15cm tall, thin, has a black mole on her right eye near the bridge of her nose, likes to wear red clothes... If you know anything about it, please contact Mr. Wang, we will be grateful!"
The contact information and address of the contact person were left at the end of the missing person notice. What caught Chen Ge's attention was that Mr. Wang's address was that of this haunted house.
"It's a bit strange." He instinctively felt that something was not right. He took out his mobile phone and took a photo of the missing person notice before entering the hospital.
This building was much larger than he had imagined, with a three-story main building, a warehouse and a building similar to a water house next to it.
"The wall peeled off like this. It looks like it is at least 20 to 30 years old." Although the entire building is seriously aged, it has been cleaned fairly well. There is no garbage on the ground, and all weeds have been removed.
Parking his bicycle in the yard, Chen Ge entered the main building carrying his bag: "Is there anyone there?"
The long corridor was pitch dark. After more than ten seconds, the door near the corridor opened a crack.
"Hello." Chen Ge walked towards the [Update soon] room, but the owner seemed unwilling to face Chen Ge, and the door only opened half a finger's width before stopping.
There were no lights on in the room, and Chen Ge could only see a woman standing behind the crack of the door. Her eyes were bloodshot. She seemed to stay up late often and her mental state was very bad.
"I would like to ask how much it costs to stay in our apartment for one night?" Chen Ge's voice was very soft, trying to sound kind. However, what he didn't expect was that the other party's reaction was very strange, and he smiled at him.
Immediately closed the door.
"What do you mean?" Before he could figure out why, footsteps sounded on the second floor of the apartment, the only voice-activated light at the corner of the corridor turned on, and a lame middle-aged man walked down.
The man seemed to have heard what Chen Ge said before, and asked: "Do you want to stay in my hotel? How long do you plan to rent it for?"
"Are you the landlord?" Chen Ge took the initiative and walked over: "I'm only staying for one night."
"Stay one night?" The lame man looked Chen Ge up and down, as if he wanted to see through him completely: "Okay, let me see your ID card. Come to the second floor to pay."
Chen Ge was about to follow the man to the second floor when a sound suddenly came from the iron gate at the entrance of the courtyard. Hearing the sound, the lame man frowned and his expression suddenly turned bad.
He stopped where he was, and Chen Ge had no choice but to wait.
After a while, a haggard-looking middle-aged man came in, wearing shabby clothes and holding a thick stack of leaflets in his hand.
"Wang Qi, I told you that your girlfriend is not here. If you continue to stalk me, don't blame me for being rude!" The lame man stood in the middle of the stairs, blocking the way.
The middle-aged man ignored the lame man and walked upstairs sullenly.
"I'm talking to you!" The lame man pushed hard, and the unsuspecting middle-aged man hit the wall directly. The leaflets in his hand were scattered on the floor, and one of them fell right at Chen Ge's feet.
"It's a missing person notice. It's exactly the same as the one posted on the door of the apartment building." Chen Ge narrowed his eyes. He calmly picked up the missing person notice on the ground and secretly looked at the top of the stairs.
The middle-aged man did not fight with the lame man. He climbed up from the ground and silently picked up the missing person notice, like a walking zombie.
"Don't worry about him, this man is a lunatic." The lame man waved to Chen Ge, motioning him to go to the second floor first.
"Madman?" Chen Ge glanced at the middle-aged man quietly as he passed by him: "In the introduction to the midnight escape scene, it was mentioned that a mentally ill patient was mixed into the apartment building. If this person is a madman, then he
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