The light in the corridor seemed to dim, and the cold wind blew from above him, causing his hair to stand on end. Nightmare Academy's backstage control room appeared to have adjusted the temperature to its lowest.
When Chen Ge returned to the previous floor, he was surprised to find that the safety door that led to the corridor had been closed, and there was a brand new seal on it.
"Locked? Are they planning to trap me in the corridor? "Chen Ge stopped at the door and looked down the corridor through the glass window.
Many shadows flashed down the dim corridor. They were of different sizes, and they were holding various tools.
Just as his attention was attracted by the shadows, the footsteps came from the corridor again.
"Someone is following me?"
Chen Ge was not in a hurry. After a while, he realized that there was a child's voice mixed in the footsteps. The child seemed to have been separated from his father, and he was crying for help.
"This voice sounds weird. It doesn't sound like a child's, but it's much sharper than an adult's voice. It feels like the child's voice is not fully developed."
Closing his eyes, Chen Ge patiently determined the child's location.
"The child's voice upstairs is mixed with a very weak sound of electricity. It should be a machine playing it. Even though the voice that came from downstairs is also scary, it feels clearer. The child should be at the bottom of the building."
The lower he went, the dimmer the lights became, and the walls became mottled. There were large stains and some strange patterns, and it made Chen Ge feel uncomfortable.
Chen Ge also noticed something strange. There was a black incense burner placed at the corner of every floor, and there were three broken incense sticks stuck to it. He had no idea what they were for.
"The incense sticks are damp, and they can't be lit. They're broken …" Chen Ge squatted down beside the black incense burner and held it in his palm. To his surprise, he found a picture pressed under the burner.
He picked up the picture. It was a man in his thirties. He was wearing a mask, and his head was lowered like he was worried that other people would see his face.
Moving his eyes down, Chen Ge saw that the man's left hand was holding someone's hand, but the left corner of the picture had been cut off.
"Dad …" A ghostly voice came from behind Chen Ge. It was very sudden.
"Are you calling me?" Chen Ge looked back, but there was nothing behind him.
Narrowing his eyes, Chen Ge walked in the direction of the sound. He found a mini audio player embedded in the mottled wall.
"So they purposely designed the wall to look like this to make it easier to hide all sorts of equipment and mechanisms." Chen Ge's finger slid across the front of the player. "Such an intricate device must be very expensive. Even my Haunted House doesn't have one. There's a reason why Nightmare Academy is able to grow so big. Combining technology and ghost stories is the way to go. "
Chen Ge was not an arrogant person. Always maintaining a humble heart was one of the keys to him being able to get to where he was now.
"I haven't checked my bank account for a long time. I should have accumulated quite a lot of money by now. After the four-star scenario is unlocked, I will ask Director Luo for a sum of money to purchase a batch of top-tier equipment for my Haunted House. Let the ghost employees operate the most advanced equipment, and there will be a deeper horror hidden within the horror. It will definitely surprise the visitors. "
Holding the picture in his hand, Chen Ge carried his bag and walked down another floor.
The footsteps and the crying of the children came closer. Nightmare Academy seemed to want to create an atmosphere where the ghosts were slowly approaching. Through the mini audio players that they had installed in the stairwell and the precise backstage controls, they managed to achieve this perfectly.
When a normal person entered the stairwell and realized that the longer they stayed in the stairwell, the closer the footsteps and the crying of the children would get, their psychological barrier would slowly crumble. Unfortunately, they had run into Chen Ge that day.
After the sound got closer, Chen Ge did not panic. In fact, he actively rushed toward the source of the sound. He wanted to see the ghost's real face first, and this put the backstage controls in a difficult position.
He kept communicating with the actors to prevent Chen Ge from rushing in before the scenario was ready.
"It's useless to determine the location from the footsteps and crying. Every floor has a loudspeaker, and they can choose whichever loudspeaker they want to use to make the sound." Chen Ge stood quietly in the stairwell and held his breath. He wanted to find a third sound under the interference of the footsteps and crying to confirm his workers' location.
The backstage controls saw that Chen Ge had finally stopped messing around, so they immediately contacted the actors and prepared to enter the stage.
Chen Ge did not know what was happening inside the Haunted House's control room. He merely used his superhuman senses to pick up the sound of two footsteps coming from the lower floor, one heavy and one light.
"One of them is the sound effect, and the other should be the actors moving."
Without any warning, Chen Ge rushed forward. When he grabbed the door handle, another pale hand reached out to grab the door handle from the inside.
The two hands fell at the same time, and through the glass, they lifted their heads to look at each other.
Inside the building, a girl wearing Nightmare Academy's uniform stood at the door. She had thick make-up on, and her face was pale. There was a very obvious purplish strangulation mark on her neck, and the scariest thing was that there was a finger stuck in her eyeball, and the sides of her lips were covered in red paint.
In the stairwell, Chen Ge gripped the doorknob tightly. His eyes were cold, and a woman's shadow was reflected in his pupils. There was a unique presence around him.
It was hard to describe, but he did not feel like a living person.
The girl did not expect someone to suddenly grab the doorknob and appear at the window. Her face was twitching, but she still maintained her professionalism.
To prevent the finger from falling off, the girl lifted her chin and used a strange posture to look at Chen Ge.
"You're the ghost in the stairwell? The Specter that can only be seen after reaching the thirteenth step? "Through the door, Chen Ge studied the girl closely.
Hearing what Chen Ge said, the girl was confused. She felt like Chen Ge was more into the character than she was, but soon, a conundrum was placed before her.
As a Specter surrounded by despair and resentment, how was she supposed to answer Chen Ge?
If she said yes, it would make her seem obedient. How could a Specter answer whatever you asked?
If she said no, wouldn't it make the Specter seem a bit arrogant? Furthermore, it felt like she was trying to hide something.
The girl tilted her head to look at the surveillance. The script had not given her any lines.
"If you don't answer, I'll take it as a yes. Why is it so stiff? What happened to the thirteenth step? " Chen Ge pulled on the safety door, and the door that was gripped by the Specter was pulled open just like that. But at that moment, something strange happened.
The girl seemed to hear the notification in her earpiece. She looked behind Chen Ge, and her expression changed like she had seen something very scary.
"He's out again!"
After saying that, the girl turned to run. She did not even have the time to pick up the finger prop that was stuck in her face.
"He's out again?" Chen Ge turned back to look. He thought it was Lao Zhou or the Pen Spirit.
He looked at the girl that soon disappeared, and he was confused. "Is this a scene within a scene from Nightmare Academy? Or is it really haunted? This place is built at the most Yin location, so there's a chance that it's haunted. "
While Chen Ge was thinking, the sound of footsteps and children's shouts came from the stairwell again. The strange noise was annoying.
"You're still not done? Fine, didn't you want to find your father? When I find you, I'll show you what a father's love is like! "
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