Chen Ge was very engrossed in reading, but when he turned to the next page, all he saw was blank space.
"No more?" He looked at the date written by the cartoonist on the last page, and then took the notebook next to it.
Taking out the yellowed newspaper, Chen Ge compared the date of the newspaper.
The day after he finished drawing this painting, something happened to the cartoonist. The newspaper must have been stuffed in by the old lady or several other tenants.
"His dream stayed on that day."
Sitting beside the bed with a handmade comic book, Chen Ge had a new understanding of the ghosts he met tonight.
The five stories respectively tell the past of the five people in Room 304. None of them were bad people during their lifetimes.
Chen Ge's initial guess was that the ghosts in the album had affected reality, but after reading the cartoonist's own story, he realized that the truth was that the ghosts in reality were hiding in his comics.
"Being taken care of by a few ghosts in the rental house, this uncle is quite powerful." Chen Ge turned the comic to the fifth story, and he said to the dejected middle-aged uncle: "I know you are unwilling.
You want your comics to be seen by more people and liked by more people, I can help you do all this."
The old man in the picture album who hugged his legs and huddled in the corner, after hearing Chen Ge's words, his ears twitched and he seemed to want to turn his head.
"There is indeed something wrong with this comic. It should be possible for ghosts to live in it."
The evil ghosts and residual thoughts under the red clothes can only be preserved for a long time if they are pinned on something. The back thirty pages of the cartoonist's album are all blank. If this thing can be pinned on by ghosts, then Chen Ge will never have to memorize it again.
He ran around with a big bag, and even took the twenty-four students from Muyang Middle School out for a walk.
Thinking of this, Chen Ge was a little moved: "Uncle, you and the characters in your novels have unresolved wishes. Why don't you tell them and I can help you make up for the regrets you had during your lifetime."
In order to increase his persuasiveness, Chen Ge gave many examples, such as publishing all the comics of the cartoonist, helping the salesman kill the ghost who brought him bad luck, finding the gambler's lost left hand, and visiting the English teacher's family whom he had not seen for many years.
etc.
Chen Ge moved it with emotion and reason, and the middle-aged man in the album finally turned his body.
On his typical middle-aged frustrated face, with a hopeless smile, he looked at Chen Ge with a doubtful attitude.
After a few minutes, several Chinese characters appeared under the cartoon.
"Please take care of me."
At the same time, the black phone vibrated slightly. Chen Ge did not shy away from the middle-aged man and clicked on the prompt message in front of him.
"Lucky ghost favored one! Congratulations on winning the strongest ghost under the red dress!"
"Yan Danian: A rare and special kind of ghost."
"Ability 1: Affinity with Ghosts (He looks so downcast that people can't bear to bully him)."
"Ability 2: Painting Soul (after witnessing a ghost, there is a certain probability of dragging it into the painting, except for red clothes)."
"Ability Three:???"
After seeing the prompt message on the black mobile phone, Chen Ge's eyes widened.
He really couldn't imagine that the old man in the comics, wearing a white vest and sitting alone in the corner, with his unhappiness radiating from his face, turned out to be the most powerful ghost in red!
"It's so hidden!"
This was the first time Chen Ge saw a ghost with three abilities, but the appearance of this ghost was simply embarrassing to all ghosts.
Yin Xiaoxiao was still trying to look fierce every day, but this uncle had completely given up on treatment. He didn't have the dignity of a fierce ghost at all. He was just depressed, weak, entangled and decadent, with an unhappy look on his face.
"The third ability has not been unlocked yet. That ability should be the key to the uncle's ability to dominate all the evil ghosts under the red clothes."
We are all adults, and Chen Ge also understands what the cartoonist means. The cartoonist does not fully trust him yet. It is estimated that the uncle will not officially become an employee of the haunted house until his wish is fulfilled.
"Uncle is good at painting, and his style is a perfect match for the haunted house."
"In addition to him, there are other ghosts in the comic book. Buy one and get four free. You can ask them to help with cleaning and organizing props. At critical moments, they can also be used as actors. These drama ghosts are really awesome in a haunted house.
It couldn’t be more appropriate.”
Chen Ge finally showed a smile on his face, and he said from the bottom of his heart: "Brother, I understand your wish, and I will help you realize your dream!"
After putting away all the paintings in the house, Chen Ge stuffed the painting tools on the table into his backpack before walking out of the narrow bedroom.
"It's time to say goodbye."
He closed the door of room 304 and walked out of the corridor. As he passed by the trees next to him, a faint black shadow penetrated into the album, which seemed to be the old lady who had escaped just now.
Taking a taxi back to New Century Park, Chen Ge entered the scene of Muyang Middle School in the haunted house. He took the picture album and explained the situation to all the dolls, and then left without caring whether they understood or not.
"The evil ghosts in the comic book have no harmful intentions and can greatly enrich the haunted house and solve the problem of shortage of manpower. Yan Danian himself has three abilities. After fulfilling his wish and unlocking the strongest ability, he said
Maybe he can bring me a surprise."
Returning to the employee lounge, Chen Ge logged into his short video platform account again after a few days. The live broadcast room was still blocked, but the number of followers soared to 510,000.
There were a lot of private messages backstage, and people were asking about Chen Ge every hour.
"It seems that everyone still cares about me."
The first wave of exposure for the Horror House came through short videos, and Chen Ge was not prepared to waste this great publicity channel.
He opened the album, carefully selected, and took some of the weirdest pictures: "Brother, I am about to show your paintings in front of half a million people, and this is just the first step in my promotion for you. Times have changed. In a few years,
Before, you personally went to the publishing house to beg them to publish it, but now I will let them come to you on their own initiative."
Chen Ge is not worried that no one likes Yan Danian's paintings. Only by actually seeing his paintings can he understand the strange feeling.
It is an unchangeable style, and the characters in the painting seem to be what they looked like when they died.
Chen Ge first shot several short videos in a haunted house to strongly announce his return. At the same time, he started serializing a horror comic - Linglou Ghost Guest in the platform community under the name Yan Danian.
Soon, Chen Ge's comment area exploded. Offline and online promotions were linked. In just ten minutes, the name Jiangxi Suburban Horror House appeared on the platform's popularity rankings, and in a kind of