"Is there a problem?" Chen Ge took out two hundred RMB and placed it on the counter.
The ticket seller was startled before quickly replying, "It's fine, it's just that the name sounds familiar. It sounds like a friend of mine."
"Is that so?" Chen Ge smiled faintly and did not mind.
The worker's hands moved faster, and he finished all the procedures in just a few seconds.
The ticket to Nightmare Academy was interesting. It was a letter of admission, and Chen Ge's name was written on it.
"Please bring your ID and letter to the waiting area. Once you have five visitors, you'll be able to enter." After the worker finished Chen Ge's paperwork, he left clutching his stomach like he was not feeling well.
Chen Ge carried his bag and walked behind the other two visitors. He was relaxed like he had returned to his own home.
"Brother, did you come alone?" There was a couple waiting in front of the door. They were holding each other's hands, and they looked very nervous.
"Yes, I was bored, so I came in to take a look."
"You sure are brave to come here alone. This place is very scary. I was just discussing with my girlfriend that if there are too few people with us, we'll give up." The man was about 1.7 meters tall. He wore a black shirt and a pair of wide-rimmed glasses. He looked like a nice person.
"If we give up, wouldn't the ticket money be wasted?" Chen Ge was confused.
"That's better than being scared to tears and running out on your own!" The man thought that Chen Ge's brain worked very well. "My colleague has been to this Haunted House before. It's very scary. We have to stick together later."
"Okay." Chen Ge was a Haunted House owner himself, so he would not underestimate his enemy. Nightmare Academy had to have a trump card for it to be so big.
The man seemed to be very cowardly. He kept telling his girlfriend how scary this Haunted House was, and his girlfriend was very cooperative. Just listening to the man's story, her face was pale.
After waiting for another minute, a woman in her twenties and three students walked in.
They did not know each other. The three students kept chattering among themselves, and they appeared to be very excited. One of them appeared to have played this Haunted House before, but that time, he was so scared that he gave up halfway through the game.
The new female visitor was dressed very normally. She was the type that would be unrecognizable in a crowd. She did not like to speak, and she stood alone in the corner.
"We have enough visitors. All visitors, follow me." The worker who had the stomachache earlier walked out from the worker's passageway. She was carrying a tattered red school bag and several blue storage boxes. "Please do not use your phone inside the Haunted House. We will provide you with lighting tools. Please do not run around and do not touch the actors. Of course, the actors will not touch you."
The worker explained the rules that the visitors had to follow before entering the Haunted House. Then, he reached into his bag and took out a small flashlight. "Now, please line up and come to me to get your lighting tool."
When the man and woman at the front walked over, the worker handed them the lighting, but when Chen Ge walked over, the worker reached out to stop him. "Sir, can you temporarily leave your backpack with us? We will return it to you after the Haunted House is over."
Chen Ge shook his head. He had four Red Specters in his backpack. If he handed them over to someone else and something happened, the whole building would be destroyed.
"I'm sorry, but we are following the rules. We hope you can cooperate." The worker was firm.
"You're worried that I have illegal items in my backpack, right? It's fine, I can open it for you to see. "Compared to the worker from Nightmare Academy, Chen Ge was much more reasonable.
He opened his backpack before the crowd. "I've read your rules. You are not allowed to bring flammable items, knives, or recording devices. I don't have the things you're talking about in my backpack."
The people there looked at Chen Ge's backpack, and their expressions slowly turned strange.
"What are these?"
The red high heels and cute cartoon dolls could be explained as personal hobbies, but what about the recorder? Learning English?
More importantly, why would you bring these things to a Haunted House?
The way the surrounding visitors looked at Chen Ge turned strange, and the worker's mind was filled with question marks.
"You're indeed not carrying any dangerous items, but …" The worker picked up the recorder. He suspected that there was something like a pinhole camera hidden inside the recorder.
The worker pressed the switch, and the tape inside started to turn. There was a rustling sound.
It really did look like a normal recorder.
"What do you mean? I can't bring a recorder to your Haunted House? I've been to other Haunted Houses, but they don't have such a rule! "Chen Ge argued.
"The problem is, they wouldn't expect someone to bring something like this to a Haunted House." The worker hesitated before placing the recorder inside his backpack. He looked through the other items.
In the hidden compartment of the backpack, the staff also found a hand-drawn horror comic and a ballpoint pen wrapped in tape.
"You're an artist?"
"Don't I look like one?" Chen Ge did not admit or deny it. He just looked at the man quietly.
The worker did not know how to answer. He placed everything back for Chen Ge and then returned the backpack to Chen Ge. "Take your acceptance letter and flashlight. Go in."
He searched inside the backpack for a long time before taking out a red flashlight and handing it to Chen Ge.
This flashlight looked like other flashlights, but only Chen Ge's was red, and the others had green.
After walking through the safety door, the visitors entered the elevator.
"In ten seconds, your nightmare journey will officially begin. If you can't hold on and wish to give up, you only need to scream for help at the camera." The worker watched the visitors enter the elevator and then pointed at the acceptance letters in everyone's hands. A strange smile appeared on his face. "The number of visitors this time is very small. To balance the difficulty, I'll give you one more hint — think about what the nightmare is."
The worker pressed the button, and the elevator closed and started to move upward.
"Chui Ming, you've been here before. Do you know what kind of secret is hidden inside this acceptance letter?" one of the students asked the other child next to him.
"Don't look at it. Just keep your eyes on your feet after you enter." Chui Ming looked like he had just turned eighteen, and he was very shy.
"Is it that scary?" The other child did not believe it. He wanted to tear the acceptance letter open to take a look, but he was halfway through when the light in the elevator suddenly went off!
Darkness descended, and several screams echoed inside the elevator. Then, a scary green light appeared around the elevator.
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