"Lucky Specter's Favored, your courage is astonishing. This Nightmare Mission is both a test and a reward!"
"The game is called Deep Water. It allows you to cross the line between life and death and meet the dead.
"Mission Requirement: Enter the bathroom alone at 3: 30 am. Lock the bathroom door and turn off the lights. Fill the bathtub with water, light a candle around it, and lie in it.
"3: 30 am to 3: 44 am is the darkest time of the day, and it is also the intersection of Yin and Yang. What you need to do is hold your breath at 3: 44 am, sink to the bottom of the bathtub, and recite the name of the person you want to see the most in your heart.
"When you reach the gap between dawn and night, you will be able to see them at the edge of life and death.
"Successfully meet the person you want to see, and the mission will be completed. If you don't see them, hold your breath for sixty seconds, and the mission will be completed automatically. "
After reading the mission details on the black phone, Chen Ge's emotions were complicated.
Compared to the first Nightmare Mission, this mission felt a lot easier. Closing one's eyes for thirty minutes in a terrifying environment required a strong mental fortitude and courage, but holding one's breath for sixty seconds was something most people could do.
However, it was precisely because most people could do it that he felt uneasy. After all, this was a Nightmare Mission, so there had to be some kind of unknown risk.
"Similar to the previous Nightmare Mission, it'll take place inside the bathroom. The difference is this time, I'll have to sink into the bathtub and hold my breath for sixty seconds." He thought about the whole mission. Including the preparation time, it would only take him ten minutes. What kind of scary thing could happen in such a short time?
Chen Ge was tempted, not only because the mission looked easy but also because of a sentence in the mission introduction. "You can cross the line between life and death and meet the dead."
The more dangerous the situation, the calmer Chen Ge would be. He sat in the chair and thought about a possibility.
His parents had disappeared at an abandoned hospital, leaving behind the black phone and the doll. When he was about to give up on the Haunted House, he had activated the black phone.
During the first Nightmare Mission, the doll had become the key item to stop the mirror monster from coming out. It was worth considering that both the doll and the black phone were his parents' belongings, so was it possible that they had purposely left them behind?
If everything was really planned by them, then this second Nightmare Mission was worth pondering over.
"Could it be that they want to use this method to see me and reveal more information?" Of course, this was just Chen Ge's guess. In fact, regardless of whether the Nightmare Quest was arranged by his parents or not, Chen Ge would still do it.
Crossing the line between life and death to meet the people that he had met, for Chen Ge, this was a chance to confirm whether his parents were still alive or not.
If he couldn't see them, it meant that his parents were only missing and were still alive.
If he did, then it would prove Chen Ge's first guess. His parents did leave behind something to tell him. Perhaps the phone contained their real last words.
"Looks like I have no other choice." Chen Ge glanced at his watch. It was 2: 55 am, and there were still thirty-five minutes before the mission started. I wasted too much time smashing the mirror on the third floor. This is not going to be easy.
The mission requirement was to lie inside a bathtub filled with water, but the only room with a bathtub in the Haunted House was the Murder by Midnight scenario.
At the end of the worker's corridor was a room with a bathtub. When he was scaring Heshan's group, Chen Ge had used that to enter and exit the scenario.
"There's only thirty-five minutes left. I won't make it in time to find a hotel with a bathtub. I'll have to face the mirror monster head on." Since he had made the choice, Chen Ge did not hesitate. He carried the four dolls with him and ran out of the Haunted House. He sneaked into the theme park's cafeteria in the middle of the night and grabbed two cleavers.
"Even though I've never used these cleavers on a pig or lamb, I've seen the chefs use them to kill chickens and fish, so I guess they've killed animals before." He sniffed the cleavers. There was no murderous aura, only a thick scent of green pepper that made him want to cry.
After returning to the Haunted House, Chen Ge carried the iron bucket and ran between the bathroom and toilet. Ten minutes before the mission started, he finally filled the bathtub with water.
"The preparation is complete, we can start now." The front door of the Murder by Midnight scenario was locked. Chen Ge entered through the worker's corridor. Following the mission requirement on the black phone, he stood alone inside the bathroom.
The mirror in the room had already been smashed by Chen Ge, and it was littered with broken pieces. Chen Ge stepped on it, and it creaked noisily.
"I made quite a commotion when I moved the water. The mirror monster should know that I'm here already, but it doesn't matter. I only need to hold my breath for one minute, and I'll be safe."
From Chen Ge's perspective, even though this mission was strange, it was not that dangerous.
He locked the bathroom door from the inside and placed the doll that his parents had left for him behind the door. Then, he placed the four dolls that carried the victims' lingering spirits around the bathtub.
"Guys, I'll be counting on you later. No matter what, you have to buy me one minute!"
Similar to last time, he turned on his phone's camera and placed it at a suitable angle to record. However, due to the darkness in the room, the screen was almost completely black, and he could barely make out a figure.
When there were only three minutes left, Chen Ge took out everything from his pocket and placed them on the sink. Following the black phone's instructions, he lit a candle around the bathtub.
The flickering candle became the only source of light in the room. It reflected the mirror pieces on the floor, and Chen Ge's image appeared in each of them.
He removed his shirt and walked to the bathtub.
Shallow ripples appeared on the surface of the water. The bathtub was very shallow, but due to the lack of light, Chen Ge could not see the bottom.
He reached out to touch the surface of the water, and a chill crawled up Chen Ge's body from his fingertips. He shivered involuntarily. "This mission sure is strange."
After confirming the time, Chen Ge grabbed the two cleavers and jumped into the bathtub.
As he entered, the water overflowed, and it splashed all over the mirror pieces.
"So cold …"
Chen Ge could feel the heat in his body slipping away, and even his heartbeat slowed.
Water dripped down the edge of the bathtub, and other than that, there was no other sound in the room.
"One minute. As long as I survive this one minute, I'll get the reward and prove my speculation!"
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