After conversing with the female visitor, Chen Ge's interest in the boy in the stairwell increased.
"A person who dares to wander around in the day is definitely not a normal Lingering Soul; he's at least a baleful Specter. But why did he stay here and not leave? Is it because he has an unfulfilled wish? Or is the item he left buried deep inside the building? "
Once he thought about the boy's soul that could not rest in peace, Chen Ge felt uncomfortable. He decided to help the boy complete his last wish.
Chen Ge rushed down the stairs. He did not know how to increase the chance of running into the boy, so he found a blind spot and summoned Lao Zhou.
"A woman just said that there's a boy wandering around this stairwell. Can you sense his location?" Chen Ge asked Lao Zhou with the intention of giving it a try.
"I can't sense anything. Perhaps he's hiding." Lao Zhou lifted his head to look around. "But this place is quite strange."
"How is it strange? What did you discover? "
"Normal Lingering Souls cannot appear in the day, and baleful Specters can only appear for a short period of time. If they leave their item of possession for too long, it'll cause irreparable damage. Normally, that's the case, but our Haunted House is an exception. I don't know the exact reason, but even in the day, we can appear at the Haunted House. There's no time limit, and it's very comfortable. " After explaining the Haunted House, Lao Zhou turned to look at the building of Nightmare Academy. "Even though this place is not as good as our Haunted House, I can stay here for a long time. This building seems to block out the direct sunlight, and the Yin energy is very heavy."
"You can stay at Nightmare Academy for a long time?" At that moment, Chen Ge even thought of keeping Lao Zhou as a spy.
"Not only me, normal Lingering Souls like the students from Mu Yang High School should be able to endure it as well. This kind of place is too rare," Lao Zhou said meaningfully.
"Nightmare Academy has been around for many years. Perhaps due to the unique environment and the unique industry here, it has changed." Chen Ge leaned against the wall.
"The negative emotions from the visitors have accumulated here over the years, and the building is filled with Yin energy. If this continues, this place might attract more and more ghosts." Lao Zhou frowned, and he looked very serious. "Just like how our Haunted House occasionally has special visitors, if we cannot control the situation, something very dangerous might happen, and the consequences will be unimaginable."
Chen Ge pondered silently. "That makes sense. What do you think we can do for them?"
"It's better for us to take over such a dangerous place. After all, we're already used to danger." Lao Zhou sighed and advised helplessly.
After a moment's silence, Chen Ge finally said, "The greater the power, the greater the responsibility. Even though I don't live in Xin Hai anymore, I can't just watch something happen to Xin Hai. After I deal with the things on our side, I'll contact Director Luo immediately, and together, we'll take over this building and nip the danger in the bud. "
"To succeed, one has to succeed. It's such a blessing to have a boss like you." Lao Zhou's brows relaxed instantly, and he sighed from the bottom of his heart.
The dreamy cooperation between Chen Ge and Lao Zhou formed a stark contrast to the boss of Nightmare Academy and his employees. The reason for this was probably because of Chen Ge's hidden charisma.
Leading Lao Zhou, Chen Ge ran to the first floor. The end of the corridor was not the exit but a door that was painted on the wall.
"The door is painted on the wall. Based on the rules of the game, if the final visitor finds out that the door is just a painting on the wall, they'll definitely panic."
After visiting for a long time, Chen Ge had already familiarized himself with the layout of Nightmare Academy. There were two unsafe 'safe' corridors on the left and right of the building, and both of them were dead ends. The real exit was the elevator in the middle, the elevator that the visitors took when they entered the building.
There were pros and cons to this arrangement. The upside was that it could trigger the fear in the visitors' hearts, but the downside was that when they ran into a special visitor, the employees themselves had nowhere to run.
"Lao Zhou, after we find the boy, stay at the elevator and make sure that the elevator stays at the floor you're on."
"Understood."
With Lao Zhou around, Chen Ge was not worried, but the employee in the surveillance room was going to have a hard time. After some time, he might come across something very scary.
When Chen Ge and Lao Zhou arrived at the first floor, they soon realized that the building had more than just the upper floors. There was also a staircase that led underground.
Looking at the underground first floor that was specially marked with red paint on the wall, Chen Ge stopped moving. The atmosphere here was completely different from the scenes upstairs.
The stairs were covered in dust, and some of them were littered with yellowed newspapers. Some of them even had large dark brown stains on them.
Picking up a random one, Chen Ge scanned it. "The father was careless, the builder violated the rules, and the child went missing. Whose fault is it?"
It was unclear whether these newspapers were the Haunted House's own doing or they were real. There were many articles about the missing boy, and it made Chen Ge feel uncomfortable reading them.
"The expert's final speculation is that the boy is hiding in the unfinished basement."
Chen Ge placed the newspaper aside and bent down to look down the corridor.
There was no light, and the Haunted House retained its original underground appearance.
"If this is not a Haunted House scenario, there should be a 'No Entry' sign at the entrance. The Haunted House did not give any hint, so even though this place has nothing to do with the School of the Afterlife, it is still one of the Haunted House scenarios, so it should be a hidden scenario. "
To prevent themselves from being captured by the camera, Chen Ge maintained a distance from Lao Zhou.
He walked down the stairs alone, and his shoes made a rustling sound as he stepped on the newspaper.
When he was halfway down the stairs, Chen Ge suddenly stopped. He turned back to look, and then his eyes fell on the last step.
"There are thirteen steps on this floor?"
Chen Ge was sure that he had counted correctly. There were indeed thirteen steps in the staircase that led to the basement.
"Did the workers make a mistake during the building's construction? Or did Nightmare Academy do something to it? Why is there an extra step? "
He carried his bag and continued down the stairs. His left foot landed on the thirteenth step.
Looking around, Chen Ge did not see anything out of the ordinary.
However, just as he used his left leg as a pivot and his right leg was suspended in the air, the ground before him was suddenly 'flipped' open!
A man who was about the height of a seven-year-old jumped out screaming. His face was painted red, and his hands reached out to grab Chen Ge.
Chen Ge's full attention was on the thirteenth step, and he did not expect there to be a hidden compartment before the step.
The man had caught him off guard, but Chen Ge's reaction to this was different from all the visitors that Nightmare Academy had received since its opening.
Without knowing whether the man was a human or a ghost, Chen Ge swung the backpack in his hand at the man and screamed a name. "Xu Yin!"
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