When Zhang Ya was hibernating, Xu Yin had protected Chen Ge many times. At the time, both the man and the ghost were very weak, and every time, it was a battle of life and death, fighting for a chance of survival.
The Specters that Chen Ge trusted the most were Zhang Ya and Xu Yin. The bond between them had surpassed the distance between life and death.
"Are you sure you want to consume a Demon God's black pattern?" Chen Ge looked at Xu Yin seriously. Even though Xu Yin was the most suitable candidate, he would not force the young man.
While gaining power, one had to endure unimaginable pain.
Just a touch, and Xu Yin's skin started to crack. If he consumed it, what kind of pain would he have to endure?
The black pattern burned his skin, and the speed at which the blood vessels recovered was just as fast as the damage. Xu Yin looked at the black pattern on his fingertip silently and then nodded.
No one knew what Xu Yin was thinking. Perhaps he felt the pressure from the Demon God, or perhaps he knew that Chen Ge was not in a good situation. The repeated life and death situations made him realize that his power was not enough to protect everything that he valued.
He did not say much, but he knew that he did not want to lose anything anymore.
"Don't force yourself." Chen Ge and the other employees looked at Xu Yin. Xu Yin, who was in the middle of the group of 'people', slowly raised his arm and swallowed the Demon God's black pattern into his stomach.
The moment the black pattern entered his mouth, Xu Yin's face and neck popped with many thin black veins, and the Red Specter's heart in his chest was beating madly.
The pain that he was suffering was unbearable just by looking at it.
Xu Yin's expression slowly twisted. Pain and despair rushed into his eyes. It was as if he had turned back into the helpless boy.
His rationality was being eaten away, and Xu Yin was at the edge of madness.
The roar echoed behind the door. Chen Ge took the initiative to run over and hold Xu Yin's hands.
The Red Specter's cold blood wrapped around Chen Ge's hand. The blood vessels carved out countless wounds on Chen Ge's arm. His skin was torn open, and warm blood kept dripping down, but Chen Ge did not take a single step back.
"Don't be bewitched by the demon. You are Xu Yin, your name is Xu Yin!"
The Red Specter employees behind him also stepped forward. Blood threads fell on Xu Yin's body. They could not help him alleviate the pain, so they could only use their own methods to help him recover faster.
Red Specter forcefully swallowing the patterns of a Demon God was something that had never happened before.
In just a few short minutes, Xu Yin's body had almost reconstructed itself. Even a Red Specter would not have been able to withstand the collapse of a body, but Xu Yin had managed to hold on.
He slowly got used to the pain. The strange patterns on the heart of the Red Specter were growing rapidly, and the black patterns from the Demon God with the surname Chi were disappearing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Gradually, an unfamiliar man's voice came out from Xu Yin's voice. It was hard to tell what he was saying, but it sounded like he was cursing.
Following the curse, the black patterns on Xu Yin's body morphed into a mouth, and it tried to bite Xu Yin's heart from the inside.
When the mouth bit down on Xu Yin's heart, the black patterns on Xu Yin's heart also crawled into the mouth. Neither side backed down, and they continued to consume each other.
Enduring the extreme pain, with the help of the haunted house employees, the black patterns on Xu Yin's heart slowly gained the upper hand.
The black patterns from the Demon God with the surname Chi were shattered, and they became Xu Yin's nutrients.
Drops of black blood that radiated a strange presence leaked out from Xu Yin's heart. His entire presence changed, and the black patterns on his heart started to spread crazily.
"Is it a success?" Chen Ge had Zhang Yi ask the red high heels.
"For now, I suppose. The patterns of the Demon God will retaliate, but it will take some time before they are completely digested." Other people could not inspect Xu Yin's body at all. Only the red high heels, who was an expert in curses, could do that. After Zhang Yi asked about it, he even brought back a piece of good news for Chen Ge. "For some reason, Xu Yin's body has undergone a huge change. Now, most curses will not work on him. That is what the Top Red Specter who is an expert in curses said."
The pain would continue for a while, but Xu Yin's condition had basically stabilized.
This Top Red Specter from the cursed hospital had been fully utilized. Not a single bit was wasted.
"Zhang Yi, try to look into his memory as soon as possible. The more you know, the better it will be for us."
After summoning the Red Specter into the comic, Chen Ge left the world behind the door.
Returning to the underground scenario of the Haunted House, Chen Ge felt that his home was still the most comfortable.
In Xin Hai, even with so many Red Specters around him, he still did not feel safe.
"The next focus is still the cursed hospital. My parents should be there. I need to find them as soon as possible." Chen Ge had returned to Jiujiang, but Zhang Jingjiu and Qu Changlin were still in Xin Hai. He knew that the place would only get more dangerous, but he had a reason that he had to return.
"I have also promised Mr Wang that I will help him solve the case, and Xiao Sun's safety has to be taken into consideration. If I am too far away from him, even if he reminds me through the ring, I will not be able to reach him in time."
Chen Ge could not stay in Jiujiang for too long. He planned to hide Chi Ren at the Haunted House and return to Xin Hai once the sun rose.
"Last time, I left in a hurry, so there are still some things that I did not have the time to tell them." Chen Ge first entered the staff breakroom alone. He took out the black phone and used all the remaining screams to draw items.
Perhaps he had really sucked away all the Specters in the prize pool, but he did not see any Specters. Instead, he drew all kinds of strange items.
"Is there something wrong with the prize pool? Either I get a Specter or I get something that is meant for Specters? Can't I get something from the human world? " Chen Ge was getting worked up. He had read the black phone's introduction, so he knew that other than powerful items, the Wheel of Fortune had many other good items, but he could not draw anything. "Is it because the title of Red Specter's Favored is too powerful?"
Chen Ge had no choice but to distribute the items that he had drawn to his employees.
Seeing how everyone was celebrating the new year, the annoyance in Chen Ge's heart slowly dissipated. "Increasing the strength of my employees is a good thing for me."
At the end of the distribution, Chen Ge realized that he had not used the Nightmare Mission Voucher that he had won from the previous lucky draw. He looked at the time and decided to use it.
"The Nightmare Mission has a special requirement. I can't bring any ghosts with me, and I can't bring anything related to the black phone with me. I can't do the Nightmare Mission in Xin Hai City; the risk is too high. I can only try it in Jiujiang."
Putting the phone away, Chen Ge looked around and noticed the white cat leaning against the wall.
The white cat, whose body had grown another size, looked at Chen Ge with eager eyes. It wagged its tail back and forth. The other Specters and spirits had all received their presents, and it appeared to be anticipating it as well.
"Why would I mistreat you?" Chen Ge took out the high-grade cat food from the cupboard. After tricking the white cat to his side, he patted its head gently. "After midnight tonight, we might need to go out again."
Since he had returned to Jiujiang, Chen Ge had to finish all the things that he had left undone.
After taking a nap in the staff breakroom, Chen Ge waited until midnight before taking out the black phone to look through the daily missions that had been refreshed.
"Easy Daily Mission: There is a serious lack of surveillance cameras, and accidents are very likely to happen. Please install surveillance cameras on all three-star scenarios within twenty-four hours.
"Normal Daily Mission: The number of baleful employees is increasing. If you want them to work for you wholeheartedly, you have to ensure their mental health at all times. Please help five baleful employees complete their dying wishes within twenty-four hours.
"Nightmare Daily Mission: Have you ever thought that one night, when you push open one of the doors in your house alone, there will be another version of yourself standing behind the door?"
Of the three daily missions, the last one was made up of ghastly bloody letters.
Taking a deep breath, Chen Ge chose the last daily mission.
"Nightmare Daily Mission is very dangerous. Are you sure you want to choose it?"
"Yes!"
"Lucky Red Specter's Favored, you have accepted the Nightmare Daily Mission — Door. This is the most difficult of all the Nightmare Missions. Hopefully, your luck will continue to be this good.
"Door (Nightmare Difficulty): Close your eyes and cover your ears. Do not say anything other than your name! Starting from 1: 44 am, open all the doors in your house!
"You have to call out your name every time you open a door. There are two ways to complete the mission. One is to open all the doors in your house, and the other is to hear your voice echo from the other side of the door when you call out your name.
"Warning! You cannot reveal the mission information to anyone! You cannot bring anything related to the phone with you during the Nightmare Mission, and you cannot bring any Specters! "
After reading the information on the black phone, Chen Ge was silent. This Nightmare Mission was not that scary based on the description, but it would be very difficult to carry it out.
"The mission requirement is for me to open all the doors in my house, but it did not say whether the house is the one that I used to live in or the Haunted House.
"If it's the Haunted House, even if I have a whole night, I probably won't be able to open all the doors with my senses sealed off."
Chen Ge stared at the words on the screen. "For me, there is only one way to complete the mission, and that is to hear my own voice on the other side of the door. But the problem is, the mission requires me to cover my ears. If I lose my hearing, how am I supposed to hear the voice on the other side of the door? Will the voice come from the other side of the door and directly enter my heart? "
Pushing open the door in his own house and hearing his own voice on the other side of the door, it sounded simple, but there was a deeper meaning to it.
"If I do this mission inside the Haunted House, I shouldn't run into any danger …" Chen Ge suddenly realized that not long ago, someone had opened the bathroom door, and something had escaped.
The thing that escaped from behind the door was probably still hiding inside the Haunted House.
"Even if it's hiding inside the Haunted House, I don't need to worry too much." For safety's sake, Chen Ge tied the white cat with a rope and then tied the other end of the rope around his waist.
Holding the white cat's leash, Chen Ge entered the Prop Room and found the eye mask and earplugs.
After all the preparation was done, Chen Ge walked to the front door of the Haunted House. He wanted to start from there and open all the doors inside his Haunted House.
"The Haunted House is the place where I grew up. I can walk through the surface buildings with my eyes closed, but the more difficult ones are the underground ones."
Time ticked by, and at 1: 43 am, Chen Ge was fully dressed. He stood at the entrance of the Haunted House and started to count his heartbeat.
When it was 1: 44 am, Chen Ge pushed open the front door of the Haunted House.
He could not see or hear anything. The world was dark and quiet like he was the only person left in the world.
The map of the Haunted House appeared in his mind. Chen Ge moved down the corridor with his eyes closed. He did not run into anything; he had done this many times.
"All the Nightmare Missions have a deeper meaning. They are leading me closer to the truth step by step. This mission should be the same."
Chen Ge did not share the mission information with any of his employees. He could not hear anything, and he could not see anything. Walking through the familiar 'home', it was like he had returned to the time when his parents had first disappeared.
When he was broken, he would hide in the corner of the Haunted House's breakroom. He was afraid and did not dare face everything alone.
But he didn't know when it started, but he changed.
"Chen Ge?" Pushing open the door to the dressing room, Chen Ge called his name softly, but there was no response.
He touched the door, and the scene of him helping his employees with their make-up appeared in his mind. It was busy, fulfilling, and happy. He had not thought he would have so many friends.
"Chen Ge?"
Then he walked to the Prop Room. He pushed the door open, but there was still no response.
Chen Ge walked away in the dark, and the surroundings became quieter and colder.
The surveillance room, the breakroom, the Specter's Changing Room, Chen Ge walked past them one by one before entering the bathroom.
He remembered very clearly that he was standing in front of the Haunted House's bathroom, and the blood door was inside the bathroom.
"Could this mission be to lure me to open the door? But under normal circumstances, the blood door can only be opened at midnight, right? Unless the person who opens the door is the door-pusher. "
With this speculation in mind, Chen Ge stopped at the cubicle. His hand touched the door and slowly applied pressure.
"Chen Ge?"
The cubicle door was pushed open. Chen Ge's heart raced, and he held his breath.
One second, two seconds …
Ten seconds later, his voice did not come from the other side of the door.
"It's not here?"
Exiting the bathroom, Chen Ge went to the Murder by Midnight scenario and the Murder by Midnight scenario, but he still could not find the door.
"Could it be underground?"
He searched the ground and pulled open the steel door that led to the underground scenario. He stepped into it carefully.
The temperature dropped again, and Chen Ge shivered. He pulled on the rope around his waist and realized that the white cat had run away, and the rope was dragging on the ground.
"When the Dao rises one foot, the Devil rises ten?"
Even though Chen Ge had been to the underground scenario many times, he did not have muscle memory of it.
To ensure that he did not miss the door, he could only inch forward.
Dark, lonely, cold, and dead, Chen Ge felt like he was the only person left in the world, and all his emotions were slowly being stripped away.
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