"The first ending was for Xiao Bu to be taken away by the woman in the red raincoat and become her daughter; the second ending was for Xiao Bu to be made into a statue and become an artist's work. Both of them were undeniably bad endings." There was a trace of helplessness in Fan Cong's voice. "Loading to restart, Xiao Bu woke up inside her room, and I controlled her to make the third attempt."
Fan Cong was a fan of games, and this game held a strange attraction for him. He was afraid and curious at the same time.
"Different from last time, when I chose to move toward East Street and West Street, I chose the relatively old East Street.
"The buildings on both sides were gray and black, the walls were mottled, and the lines were complicated.
"This game is an open world with a high degree of freedom and is filled with death traps. As a player, they will never know what kind of scary things they might run into and how they might die.
"After playing for so long, I realized a problem. In this game, humans are scarier than ghosts. If you see a ghost, you might have a chance to escape, but if you run into a human, you'll die for sure. "Fan Cong shared everything that was on his mind.
"The creator's view of humans is quite extreme, perhaps related to his own experience." Chen Ge signaled for Fan Cong to continue. "What is the third ending for Xiao Bu?"
"I controlled Xiao Bu to wander aimlessly down the street. When I passed an apartment building, a thin man rushed out from the stairwell. He appeared to be trying to leave the town as soon as possible.
"In other games, this would be a very normal NPC, but in this game, as long as it's a living person, there's more or less something wrong with it."
"The man ran past Xiao Bu, and a sentence popped up on the screen — 'Why do they need so many children? Damn it, the police are coming. If I knew this, I wouldn't have accepted this job.
"After the man left, two options appeared on the screen — enter the stairwell and continue forward.
"Out of curiosity, I chose to enter the stairwell.
"The apartment was filled with trash, and it looked very old. I controlled Xiao Bu to get to the top floor, and I realized that the door that led to the top floor was open.
"Moving further in, I saw a small vegetable garden on the roof, but all the vegetables and flowers inside had withered. Next to the vegetable garden, there were several large water tanks. Perhaps the residents used them to pickle something. There was a large rock on top of each water tank."
"At first, I didn't think too much about it. The wind on the roof was strong, and a rock could prevent the lid from being blown away. But when I passed by the water tank, another dialog box popped up — Xiao Bu heard a phone ringing coming from the water tank. "
"I know I might have triggered a plot. I look around for the tools to move the rock off the water tank's lid." After saying that, Fan Cong's expression became very depressed. "You have no idea what is hidden inside the water tank."
"A child?" Chen Ge's expression changed. The third story that Fan Cong was telling was the story of the phone spirit! The poor boy who was hidden in the water tank on the rooftop was the phone spirit.
Fan Cong looked at Chen Ge with surprise and then nodded. "There was a boy with twisted limbs stuffed inside, and the boy was hugging a phone around his chest.
"His face was purple, his skin was greyish white, and his limbs were twisted. When I controlled Xiao Bu to find him, he was already on his last legs." Fan Cong grimaced. "I controlled Xiao Bu to remove the phone from the boy's body. The caller ID showed that it was the boy's mother. When I accepted the call, perhaps that action triggered something.
"Footsteps came from the stairwell, and the man who ran down the stairs poked his head out from the door on the roof. The expression on his face was very scary. His hands gripped Xiao Bu's neck, and he shoved Xiao Bu into the second water tank.
"Xiao Bu was shoved into the water tank, and that was the third bad ending." Fan Cong did not want to continue. He felt like this game was torturing humanity, using the coldest method to interrogate a 'person'.
After listening to Xiao Bu's third ending, Chen Ge thought about it for a long time. He placed the water aside, and his tone turned serious. "Fan Cong, I think you'd better call the police. I will go with you."
The boy that Fan Cong found inside the water tank was the phone spirit. All the characteristics matched. During his narration, Chen Ge paid special attention to one detail.
When the phone spirit's killer met Xiao Bu for the first time, he said, "Why do we need so many children?"
This sentence revealed a very important piece of information — there was a real killer behind the child abduction case! And the real culprit was most likely the culprit who had turned the whole of Li Wan City into a ghost town!
"The animal that harmed the phone spirit should still be in prison. Looks like I'll have to go to the police station today." To meet the killer, Chen Ge's power was not enough; he had to rely on Captain Yan.
"There are so many cases hidden in a small game. Eastern Jiujiang is much more dangerous than Western Jiujiang."
Comparing the two places, Chen Ge realized that all the scary scenarios in Western Jiujiang were limited to a certain area, and that probably had something to do with his parents. However, Eastern Jiujiang was completely different. The different sceneries merged with each other, and they expanded silently in the dark. There seemed to be something scary in the dark adding fuel to the fire. The result was that Eastern Jiujiang looked normal in the day, but at night, the line between humans and ghosts started to blur.
"I just want to operate my Haunted House in peace, but if they continue to expand like this, it will eventually affect me." Chen Ge found an excuse for himself to make the first move. "There are good and bad people, and it is the same for ghosts. After Haunted House upgrades to Maze of Terror, there will be more Red Specters and baleful Specters. After dealing with the evil Specters, I can provide a home for those good Specters who have lost their homes."
Chen Ge and Fan Cong both fell into deep thought, but their thoughts were different.
Several minutes later, Fan Cong was the first to speak. "Mr. Chen, about calling the police, let me think about it."
"Why should I? A murder case hidden in a game is very serious. "Chen Ge was confused.
"Let me think about it." Fan Cong seemed to have something that he did not want to talk about, and it was probably because of this reason that he came to find Chen Ge first and did not call the police.
The sun shone on him, but Fan Cong did not feel any warmth.
"It's fine, take your time to think about it. Just give me an answer in three days. Any later, and something bad might happen." Chen Ge was really worried that Fan Cong would be targeted by something. After all, this game had recorded too many cruel and realistic things.
"Okay." Fan Cong bit on his finger. When he visited the Haunted House last time, Chen Ge had noticed that Fan Cong had this habit — he would bite his finger when he was nervous.
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