No matter how well-mannered CEO Bai was, when he heard what Chen Ge said, his face turned green.
Chen Ge's words were never conventional. He was straightforward.
If you think there's something wrong with my Haunted House, come in and experience it yourself. Only with that experience will you have the right to comment.
Naturally, CEO Bai would not agree to Chen Ge's request. What a joke. Even a professional Haunted House worker fainted after entering the Haunted House. Wouldn't it be suicide for him to enter the Haunted House?
"I still have something to deal with later. If there's a chance, I'll definitely go in and experience it." CEO Bai smiled awkwardly. After rejecting Chen Ge, he was not as confident as before.
"That's such a shame. If you want to come in the future, remember to tell me first, and I'll arrange a VIP service for you." The VIP service for Chen Ge's Haunted House was a single visitor. One visitor, accompanied by nine Haunted House workers, would explore the 3.5-star scenario, Li Wan City.
"Let's not talk about that for now." CEO Bai felt like if he continued this topic, the situation would only get worse for him. He took out his phone to make a call. "Xiao Shuang, bring Changyin with you. Don't be afraid. Director Luo and Chen Ge are not unreasonable people. They won't do anything to you."
Several minutes later, footsteps came from outside the door. A pair of twins carried Lee Changyin into Director Luo's office.
Chen Ge had seen them before; they were all employees from Nightmare Academy.
"This brother looks familiar. I believe he's visited my Haunted House before." Chen Ge recognized Lee Changyin at first glance.
Lee Changyin did not dare look at Chen Ge. With the twins' accompaniment, he sat in the corner of the room.
"Changyin, tell Chen Ge about what you saw at the Haunted House." CEO Bai seemed to have regained control of the situation.
Everyone in the room turned to look at Lee Changyin. His expression was one of panic. Whenever he thought about what had happened that day, his body would shiver involuntarily.
Raising his head, Lee Changyin sneaked a glance at Chen Ge, and the fear in his eyes could not be hidden.
"It's him!"
After uttering those three words, Lee Changyin's lips turned purple, and he gasped for air. "Ghost! There are ghosts inside the Haunted House! "
"Are you here to blackmail me? Isn't it normal for a haunted house to have a ghost? "Chen Ge leaned against the sofa with a helpless expression.
"There really is a ghost! His Haunted House is haunted! Those monsters were real! It's impossible for a living person to act out that feeling! "Lee Changyin's mind slowly became clearer, and his speech became more fluent.
"Nightmare Academy might not be able to replicate that feeling, but that doesn't mean others can't." Chen Ge was getting impatient. There was no hint of disrespect in his tone, but the way he looked at Lee Changyin was like he was looking at a piece of trash. "Instead of reflecting on yourself, you keep trying to ruin others. Even if my Haunted House closes, your Haunted House will not be able to attract visitors."
"No! I'm sure those things aren't people! This isn't something a human can do! "Lee Changyin's eyes were bloodshot.
"I understand you. As a professional Haunted House actor, you wanted to run to another Haunted House to cause trouble, but you ended up fainting from fear. You've lost all your face, and that's why you came up with this idea to escape from reality." Chen Ge's analysis was clear and logical.
"I've been a Haunted House actor for five years, so I know more about Haunted Houses than you do. I understand the ceiling of this industry …"
Lee Changyin still wanted to say something, but he was cut off by Chen Ge. "Is five years that long? My parents started the mobile Haunted House ten years ago, and I grew up hugging the models of ghosts and monsters. When you were learning Pinyin with your butt naked, I was already assembling the mannequins. "
Chen Ge stood up. "If we don't get along, it's pointless to waste any more time. The ceiling that you speak of is only the ceiling that you think is the ceiling, and it is only your ceiling."
"Don't be in such a hurry to leave, Chen Ge, give me some face." CEO Bai stood up directly. He felt like he had given Chen Ge enough face. "Chang Yin is still young, and he has a stubborn temper. Why don't you find the few actors who tried to scare him and make him give up on this idea?"
Chen Ge turned back to look at Director Luo. After exchanging a look, he stopped moving. "Changyin, you said that my Haunted House is really haunted. Then can you tell me in detail what kind of ghost you've encountered inside my Haunted House?"
He walked toward Lee Changyin with narrowed eyes. With each step, Lee Changyin's body would shrink backward until he was pressed against the sofa.
"Why are you so afraid of me? Do you think I'm a ghost as well? " After experiencing so many Trial Missions from the black phone, Chen Ge had developed a unique presence around him.
"I can't be sure about the other actors because my memory is a bit blurry, but there was a middle-aged man at the hotel that I remember very clearly! He's definitely not a human! "Lee Changyin gritted his teeth." Do you dare bring him here to confront me? "
"At the hotel? A middle-aged man? "Chen Ge frowned. From the man's description, it sounded like Zhang Jingjiu.
But the key question was, why would the man be so sure that Zhang Jingjiu was a ghost? As a newcomer, even Zhang Jingjiu would be scared by himself, so how did he manage to make Lee Changyin mistake him for a ghost?
"This is a trap?" Chen Ge did not get it.
"You don't dare, right? Actually, there is no such person at your Haunted House, right? " Lee Changyin's eyes were red. His brain was developed differently from normal people, and his way of thinking was quite extreme. "Don't think about finding a random person to replace him. I have his picture here!"
Lee Changyin took out his phone from his pocket with shaking hands. He clicked open the album, and there were some pictures of Zhang Jingjiu.
These pictures were all taken before Lee Changyin came into contact with Zhang Jingjiu while pretending to be a pregnant woman.
"Why aren't you saying anything? Why are you hesitating? The pictures are very clear. Please bring this person to me immediately! " Lee Changyin felt like he was well-prepared. He was thankful that he had taken the pictures earlier, but unfortunately, he only managed to take pictures of Zhang Jingjiu. He had been running away in a hurry, so he did not have the time to take pictures.
"You've worked at a Haunted House for five years already, so you should know that taking pictures inside a Haunted House is against the rules. I will keep these pictures, and in a few days, I will personally go to Nightmare Academy to demand an explanation." Seeing the pictures, Chen Ge surprisingly calmed down.
"Don't waste time!" Lee Changyin shouted loudly. He insisted on his opinion.
"Wait here." Chen Ge turned and walked out of Director Luo's office. He returned to the Haunted House to bring out Zhang Jingjiu, who was still studying acting.
"Bring the make-up remover, we're going to meet an old friend." Chen Ge gave Zhang Jingjiu some instructions on the way, and Zhang Jingjiu immediately understood what was going on.
Knocking on the door, when Chen Ge led Zhang Jingjiu into Director Luo's office, the temperature in the room seemed to have dropped.
"This is the actor in the picture. His name is Zhang Jingjiu."
Everyone turned to look at Zhang Jingjiu. His face had been put on by Chen Ge. Even though they were standing in the bright office, it was still scary to look him in the eyes.
"I'm sorry for scaring you that day. I didn't expect you to be so cowardly. I'm so sorry." Zhang Jingjiu walked toward Lee Changyin, but Lee Changyin screamed and jumped up.
"No! He's a ghost! He's really a ghost! "
"Ignore him." Chen Ge handed the make-up remover to Zhang Jingjiu. "Remove your make-up here. I'll help you with your make-up when we get back."
"Okay." Zhang Jingjiu removed his make-up and jacket before everyone, and he instantly looked like a different person.
There was no sense of fear; he was just like the office workers that one often saw on the subway.
"Your ghost knows how to remove make-up?" Zhang Jingjiu placed the make-up remover before the three employees from Nightmare Academy.
"Your ghost knows how to remove make-up?" Zhang Jingjiu placed the make-up remover before the three employees from Nightmare Academy.
"There's no need to apologize. I'll visit your Haunted House in the near future."
The employees from Nightmare Academy could see that Chen Ge was quite angry.
After apologizing, they left with their tails between their legs.
CEO Bai felt quite awkward staying in Director Luo's office, but he managed to maintain his composure.
"Xiao Chen, there's nothing else for you to do. You can go back now." Director Luo had a satisfied smile on his face. It appeared like he had something else to 'discuss' with CEO Bai.
"Okay." Chen Ge felt like Director Luo was going to rip CEO Bai off this time, and the two had a tacit understanding.
On the way back, Chen Ge noticed that Zhang Jingjiu kept his head lowered like he was hiding something in his heart.
"Jingjiu? If there's something on your mind, just say it. We've been through life and death together, so what's there that you can't say? "Chen Ge's voice was warm. He could always bring strength to others when he didn't expect it.
"Did I cause trouble for you again? I feel like I'm so useless. I can't scare the visitors, I've dragged down the average standard of our Haunted House, and I've brought trouble to our Haunted House. " Zhang Jingjiu's voice was bitter. "Since I was young, I've been a burden to my family. Due to what happened to my mother, I've vented all my dissatisfaction on my father. I feel like it's all his fault, and I've avoided all the responsibility. Now that I think about it, I've really been a terrible person."
"Over the past few days, I've seen you studying at the Haunted House, but I have a feeling that you're still not letting go. You give me the feeling that you've locked yourself up inside a small cage." Standing inside the office, Chen Ge looked out the window at the scenery and looked down at the whole theme park. "Everyone has their moments of confusion, and everyone has their own unique charm. What you need to do now is to unlock the shackles in your heart and release your real self. When you have time, go back to Xin Hai to meet your father. Some things will be better after you've talked it out. "
Chen Ge patted Zhang Jingjiu on his shoulder. "You need to pull yourself together. Currently, the only employees that I can really use are the few of you. In the future, I plan to have you open a branch in another city so that you can take on the responsibility."
"Thank you."
"There's no need to thank me. I don't have many employees, and I treat all of them like family." Chen Ge led Zhang Jingjiu back to the Haunted House. He had Zhang Jingjiu continue to act as the boss while he entered the staff breakroom to look for information about Left Oculus. He planned to leave that night.
"The mission for the School of the Afterlife will end the day after tomorrow. Whether Zhang Ya has woken up or not, I have to go and take a look at this mission, or else all the previous missions will have been for nothing." Chen Ge stared at his own shadow for a while before picking up the calendar on the table. "Today is June 11th. The theme park's peak season is coming, and the futuristic theme park is about to open. I don't have much time left."
Zhang Ya was asleep, and Xu Yin was heavily injured. Challenging the four-star scenario, School of the Afterlife, under these circumstances was a very dangerous thing to do.
Chen Ge understood that, but he had no other choice. Giving up on the School of the Afterlife would mean that all his previous efforts would have been for nothing.
"I'll go and take a look. Hopefully, I'll be able to return."
His eyes swept to the picture of himself and his parents at the corner of the table, and Chen Ge shook his head.
In the family picture, his parents were standing in the middle. His mother seemed to be hugging something, his father was happily pointing at the Haunted House behind him, and Chen Ge was standing alone on the left.
Narrowing his eyes, Chen Ge could see that his mother was hugging Director Luo's daughter, the guardian spirit that looked like an angel.
"It feels like I'm not her biological daughter." Chen Ge placed the picture back on the table, and he accidentally saw the sentence on the back of the picture — 'June 11th, happy birthday, little brat.'
"Parents who can lose themselves keep calling me little brat." Chen Ge put the picture away and returned to his work.
During lunch, Chen Ge had his four employees go ahead while he stayed behind to take their place.
After waiting for half an hour, Xu Wan and the rest returned. They whispered to each other like they were discussing something.
"You're four minutes late. If there's a next time, I'm going to deduct your pay," Chen Ge threatened fiercely.
When the employees heard that, they quickly ran back to their own scenarios.
"If I don't hit him for a few days, he will go up the roof and tear the tiles. It seems that I should be a little stricter. Chen Ge returned to the staff breakroom to prepare all the information and then came up with a list of employees that he could bring with him. The crew of Left Oculus was just a small test; his real focus was the School of the Afterlife.
After thinking for a long time, Chen Ge came up with a reasonable plan. When he exited the breakroom, the sun had already set.
The theme park closed at 6 pm. After sending the last batch of visitors out, Chen Ge closed the door.
"Thank you for your hard work, everyone. You should get off work early." Chen Ge still had something to do that night, so he urged Xu Wan and the rest to leave.
"Boss, are you still going out tonight?" Xiao Gu seemed to have seen through Chen Ge's thoughts.
"What do you know, kid? It's all about work." Chen Ge urged them to leave. Scissors and Zhang Jingjiu did not think much of it. Only Xu Wan wanted to say something, but in the end, she did not.
The theme park during the day was bustling, but after closing for business, the park slowly quieted down.
The light of the setting sun reflected on the Ferris wheel. The laughter had disappeared, and Chen Ge stood alone at the entrance of the Haunted House.
He looked at it for a while before turning to enter the Haunted House. "I'll make my move after the sky is completely dark."
Returning to the staff breakroom, Chen Ge lay in bed, and his eyes occasionally wandered to the picture on the table. This was the first birthday that he had celebrated after his parents' disappearance.
"Should I buy a cake? Oh well, the money from the cake should be enough to buy half a mannequin. "Chen Ge patted his face and pulled himself together as he reached under the bed.
"Where's my backpack? Did the white cat drag it away? "
Chen Ge looked under the bed, but he did not see the backpack, the white cat, or Xiaoxiao.
"This cat is really capable now! It knows that I'm going to bring it out, so it even took my backpack. " Other than Chen Ge, only the white cat and Xiaoxiao would come into the staff breakroom, so Chen Ge's suspicion was on the white cat.
Holding a bag of cat food, Chen Ge opened the door to the staff breakroom. He ran all over the scenario, but he did not see the white cat.
"The white cat has run to the underground scenario? It's so cowardly that it dares to go down on its own? "
Pulling open the steel door that led underground, Chen Ge entered the dark underground corridor. He only took a few steps when he felt that something was wrong.
The underground corridor that night was strangely quiet.
"Xiaoxiao? Lao Zhou? " He called the few employees' names, but there was no response. Chen Ge walked down the dark street alone.
Eerie and oppressive, this narrow corridor was similar to the path that Chen Ge had been taking.
He could not see the light, and he was moving forward alone.
Passing the broken windows, he saw different scary scenarios. Behind him was darkness, and before him was an even deeper darkness.
Walking past the empty classrooms, Chen Ge finally stopped at the first junction of Mu Yang High School.
He was alone, and he looked at the junction. He was about to choose a random path when his phone vibrated.
He swiped the screen, and it was a message from Tong Tong. "Boss, happy birthday!"
Before Chen Ge could react, the dark junction was lit up by a will-o '-the-wisp. There was a loud bang, and the door to the bathroom was shoved open. Several mannequins rushed out carrying a blackboard!
The blackboard of the last classroom had been removed, and it was painted with a bunch of dancing people. They had different expressions, and in the middle of the group stood a man dragging an iron hammer.
Perhaps due to their limited drawing skills, they were unable to express the man's presence. They used chalk to write many nouns around the man in the middle, like sunshine, kindness, gentleness, and kindness. After they were written, there would be arrows pointing at the man in the middle.
When they saw Chen Ge, they turned around at the same time to reveal the other side of the blackboard.
However, perhaps due to the lack of coordination, many mannequins' arms and necks turned 180 degrees. They maintained this strange and creepy pose to reveal the other side of the blackboard — Happy Birthday!
The four words were written in thick chalk. Combined with the smiles on the faces of the students from Mu Yang High School, some of them wanted to get closer to Chen Ge, but some felt that if they got too close, they would not be able to see the whole picture, so they did not move.
The disagreement caused the few mannequins to get into a mess, but it was clear that they were paying attention.
There was a dry cough from the left corridor, and the lights in the other corridors went out, leaving only the one on the left.
A creepy singing filled the scenario, and it was mixed with scary laughter and static. A cadaver cart was slowly pushed out by the doctors from the underground morgue.
"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you …"
The front of the cart was filled with birthday cards. The cards were made from different materials — some were patient's records, some were flyers, and some were torn from bedsheets and clothes.
However, even though they were made from different materials, the handwriting was mostly the same, so it was probably the Pen Spirit who had written them.
In the middle of the cart was a four-story cake that was pieced together from a model.
The edge of the cake model had unique handwriting. To be able to draw the lines of the cake like blood, only the extremely talented Yan Danian could do that.
"Chen Ge, happy birthday." The doctors stopped the cart before Chen Ge, and Yan Danian and Lao Zhou walked out from behind the cart. Bai Qiulin was holding a recorder, and the bloodied tape was still spinning, playing a soothing tune.
"You guys …" Chen Ge looked at all the 'people' before him.
"Don't speak. Light the candles and make a wish." Wei Jiuqin waved behind him, and a white cat that was much bigger than normal crawled out from the classroom with a backpack in its mouth. It returned the backpack to Chen Ge.
Opening the backpack, Xiaoxiao sat inside it with several candles that were wrapped in paper.
"So, you're here." Chen Ge carried Xiaoxiao out and placed her on his shoulder. He held the few 'crude candles'. "Who told you that today is my birthday?"
"The guy that you told me to meet this morning. He said it was your other female employee who told him."
"Understood." Chen Ge nodded and looked at the 'candles' in his hand. "Do I have to light them?"
"Life needs a sense of ritual. You have to light them at every age, or else your wish won't come true." Elder Wei was very strict, so Chen Ge nodded. He took out a lighter from his backpack and lit the candles one by one before sticking them into the cake model.
The warm light chased away the chill. Ghosts hated light, but none of them stayed away.
"Boss, it's time to make a wish."
"Make a wish!"
"What kind of wish will the boss make?"
"Don't interrupt. It won't come true if you say it out loud."
His eyes scanned the faces of his employees. Chen Ge rubbed his eyes and silently made his wish before blowing out all the candles.
The underground scenario returned to darkness, but the silence was broken. All the employees gathered together, singing and laughing like a real family.
"Thank you." Standing in the dark, even though Chen Ge was the only living person in the Haunted House, he did not feel lonely.
Beauty would never be covered by a scary appearance.
He saw the sincerity that had been abandoned like a pair of broken shoes, the pride that refused to let go, and the kindness that was carved into the soul of his employees.
"It is my good fortune to have met all of you."
The party continued until midnight, and Chen Ge suddenly remembered that he still had something to do. He grabbed his backpack and shoved the white cat inside it. "Come, the night has just begun. We'll go out for the next half of the night!"
…
Walking out from the underground scenario, Chen Ge carried the heavy backpack back to the staff breakroom.
When he opened the door, he was startled.
There was a cake, a greeting card, and a key on his study table.
Picking up the card, he saw Xu Wan's elegant handwriting. "Boss, I don't think we need a spare key at the Haunted House. I believe you will always be here. I've returned the key to you. Happy birthday! Happy every day! "
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