The middle-aged man sighed. He had been a pork seller for half his life, and this was the first time he had encountered someone like Chen Ge. "If there's nothing else, please leave. I don't have a cleaver with me."
"Then, are you going to sell these knives that you often use?" Chen Ge had made up his mind. He was going to start his livestream that night. Whether it was useful or not, he would buy one first.
"How am I supposed to do business if I sell them to you?" Just as the middle-aged man said that, a young man with dyed hair squeezed through the crowd. He looked about eighteen. His jacket was tied around his waist, and he yawned.
Seeing the young man, the middle-aged man slammed the cleaver on the chopping board. He wiped his oily hands on his apron and walked toward the young man. "You still remember to come back? Where did you go last night? "
"I was singing with a few friends and then I went online." The young man put on his earphones like he did not want to listen to the middle-aged man's nonsense.
"Why didn't you answer your phone?" The middle-aged man looked more muscular than the young man. He walked forward and yanked the young man's earphones off. "I'm talking to you!"
The earphones were yanked off. The young man covered his ears and stood before the middle-aged man. He stared at the middle-aged man without saying a word.
"Are you mute? I'm asking you, why didn't you come home last night? Why didn't you answer your phone? What do you want? " The middle-aged man's voice was loud, and the aunties and uncles who were buying vegetables started to persuade him. The young man glared at the middle-aged man, grabbed the earphones, and ran out of the market.
"Come back!" The middle-aged man was too busy to leave. He stomped his feet angrily. He grabbed the cleaver from the chopping board and started to chop the bones.
Looking at the man's cruel expression, Chen Ge very knowingly took the money from the chopping board and left with his own rooster.
After exiting the market, Chen Ge was looking for a bicycle when the young man with dyed hair suddenly came to find him.
"I heard you want to buy a cleaver?"
"I don't need a new cleaver, I need a cleaver that has been used for a long time."
"I have one at home. Come with me, don't let my dad see you." The young man led Chen Ge to a residential building near the farmer's market. He had Chen Ge wait outside the door, and after a while, he came out with a strip wrapped in red cloth.
"My grandfather is a butcher. He was going to take this knife with him to his coffin, saying that he wouldn't let his family do this anymore, but my father insisted on keeping this broken knife. From then on, everything went wrong for my family. He lost everything he had in his business, and my mother passed away. In the end, he could only go to the market to butcher pigs. " The young man shoved the object wrapped in red cloth to Chen Ge. "This knife is unlucky, and I don't want to cheat you. Just take the 100 yuan."
Hearing what the young man said, Chen Ge was curious. He lifted the red cloth and looked down.
His Yin Yang Vision twitched like it had been pricked by a needle, and it only returned to normal two to three seconds later.
Inside the red cloth was a single-edged sharp knife that was nearly forty centimeters long. Perhaps because it had been soaked in too much blood, the blade was actually black and red in color.
There was a blood groove in the middle of the blade, and the surface of the wooden handle was like a blood vessel, with red lines lingering on it.
Chen Ge tried to swing it twice, and it was heavier than he expected.
"This knife feels quite scary."
After being wrapped in red cloth for who knew how long, the blade was no longer sharp, but the presence that it gave off did not change.
"When I was young, I saw my grandfather enter the pig pen with a knife, and none of the pigs dared to make a sound." The young man looked at the red cloth and extended his hand toward Chen Ge. "If you're satisfied, then pay me."
"Not bad, this is the knife that I've been looking for." Chen Ge handed the young man one hundred yuan and gave him his number. "If your father asks you about the knife, tell him to call me."
"What does that have to do with him?" The young man's face was cold as he took the money and walked into the room.
"Your father is a bit harsh with his words, but it's not easy for him. Based on what I know, there are no slaughterhouses around Jiujiang. If he wants to buy fresh pork, he has to wake up at 3 am to go to the countryside to stock up. That way, he can make it in time for the morning market."
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Carrying the chicken and cleaver, Chen Ge returned to New Century Park. There was still some time before the opening, so Chen Ge took out the list that he had made the night before.
Chicken, cleaver, salt … Three-star scenarios are very dangerous. If I can't return safely, everything else is useless. Chen Ge planned to turn everything he had into a trump card that could help him at a crucial moment.
He took out the black phone and scrolled to the bottom. His eyes locked on the Wheel of Misfortune.
To be honest, he had some trauma from this function of the black phone. When I completed the daily mission to expand the Haunted House, I was given a lucky draw, but I didn't use it. The Haunted House has been open for so long, and the number of screams that I've collected should be enough to exchange for another lucky draw. I can't draw two Specters in a row, right?
Chen Ge had always stayed away from this kind of game that he could not control. If not for the pressure from the three-star Trial Mission, he would have continued to selectively forget about this function of the black phone.
Two chances. Perhaps I'll really get something that can save my life. Chen Ge had always been a decisive person. His finger tapped on the screen, and the wheel started to move.
As the wheel slowed down, Chen Ge's hands tightened. Please don't summon another Specter!
The phone chimed, and the needle stopped at a certain spot on the wheel.
"Lucky Draw complete! Congratulations for winning a special item — White Valentine's Candy (When Zhang Ya's affection level reaches Infatuation, there is a seven percent chance of it appearing).
"Sincerity, purity, romance, and purity. When you receive this gift, your friendship will rise to another level.
"White Valentine's Candy: A sweet taste lingers on the tip of your tongue. When you consume the candy, Zhang Ya will appear.
"You've accepted a gift that Zhang Ya did not give when she was alive. Zhang Ya's affection level toward you has increased slightly."
After looking at it for a long time, a bad feeling rose in Chen Ge's heart. He sat on the stairs at the Haunted House's entrance. "I've accepted a gift that Zhang Ya did not give when she was alive. Why does that sound so weird?"
Feeling a chill on his neck, Chen Ge turned around and realized that there was a candy bag sitting behind him. The design was similar to the candy bags at Western Jiujiang's Private Academy's dance studio.
He opened it to take a look, and there was only one white candy inside. The scary thing was that on the surface of the candy was a girl's crying face.
"This face is very similar to one of Zhang Ya's roommates. Could she have made her roommate's lingering spirit into candy?"
Shoving the candy into the bag, Chen Ge felt like he needed some time to calm down. "Even though I didn't get a baleful Specter this time, the prizes are still related to Specters. Is it because I'm too close to the Haunted House that I keep getting these things?"
He patted the dust off his body, went into the house to wash his face, put away the rooster, and rode his bike away from New Century Park.
"Based on the black phone's introduction, there are many kinds of prizes inside the Wheel of Misfortune. In terms of probability, I should be getting something good." Chen Ge stood under the rising sun and tapped on the screen.
The needle spun on the Wheel of Misfortune for ten seconds before slowing down.
"What did you get?" The morning sun fell on Chen Ge, and it seemed to gild his body with a layer of gold.
"Lucky Draw completed! Congratulations, Specter's Favored, for winning a Rare Special Item — The Crying Tape (3% chance of winning)! "
"When he first listened to the tape, he noticed the problem. There was a static that he could not remove in the blank tape. He tried many methods and finally managed to reconstruct the content of the static. So, that was the sound of his struggle for help before he died. "
"Congratulations, Specter's Favored, for winning another rare Specter!"
"Warning! After winning five Specters, the title of Specter's Favored will automatically level up! "
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