"There are no outsiders here, so there's no need for you to hold back. Tell me everything you know."
Chen Ge placed the two diaries before Shang Guan Qing Hong.
"Where did you find this?" Shang Guan Qing Hong had not recovered from the shock. In his mind, even if Chen Ge was not scared half to death, he should have fainted, but the Chen Ge before him was not only perfectly normal, he was radiating a very dangerous presence.
"Your Haunted House is indeed haunted, and the source of all the disasters is this diary." Chen Ge pulled open the zipper of his backpack. If Shang Guan Qing Hong still wanted to deny it, he would summon the few doctors and have them do a full body checkup on Shang Guan Qing Hong.
After a few minutes of silence, Shang Guan Qing Hong suddenly revealed a smile. He moved his neck with difficulty to look at Chen Ge. "Even if I tell you, it is useless. The thing inside this diary has already left. It is just an empty shell."
"Empty shell?" Chen Ge was even more curious. "Looks like you know a lot of things."
"I won't lie to you. I bought this diary from a mother. Her child became a vegetable due to a car accident. She took care of the child for five whole years until one night, her child suddenly woke up. Looking at the world around him, he fell into a state of great fear. It was like he was having a long nightmare. "Shang Guan Qing Hong's words had aroused Chen Ge's interest.
"A vegetable has woken up? Where is the child now? "Chen Ge did not think that Shang Guan Qing Hong was lying. He wanted to find the child directly.
"Dead. He died not long after he woke up." Shang Guan Qing Hong's voice was strange like he hesitated between every word. "During the period when the boy woke up, he was incoherent and afraid of everyone around him, including his own mother. About two days later, the boy finally let down his guard around his mother. He told his mother that he had hidden a diary in his room and hoped that his mother would take good care of it. The mother agreed instantly, but that night, the boy passed away. The cause of death was cardiac arrest. "
"The boy died after he told his mother the secret?" Chen Ge felt that there must be something wrong with this.
"That mother couldn't believe it was true. She had guarded her child for five whole years, and it wasn't easy for her child to wake up. However, on the second night after he woke up, he left this world forever. She was so traumatized that she had mental problems. She couldn't get over it even after a long time of treatment. In the end, under the doctor's advice, she sold everything related to the boy and pretended that the child had never appeared in her life. " Shang Guan Qing Hong knew the details. He appeared to have investigated this diary before. "I met the mother and her attending doctor at the flea market. It was then that I bought this diary."
"How is the boy's mother's condition? Where does she live? Is he still receiving treatment? " Chen Ge's brain was already spinning rapidly. He "smelled" something unusual about the whole thing.
"Unfortunately, the treatment did not go well. Selling the things did not mean that one could forget the past. Due to her extreme sadness, the mother could not take the blow, and one night, she passed away." Shang Guan Qing Hong tried to sit up straight. "That is all I know."
"What do you mean by an empty shell?"
"When the diary was first returned to the haunted house, every midnight, there would be the sound of a child's laughter and crying. That was the main reason why our Nightmare Academy's nightlife was so scary. But later, for some reason, the diary suddenly returned to normal, so I suspect that it is now just an empty shell. "Shang Guan Qing Hong acted normally.
Chen Ge was not sure whether Shang Guan Qing Hong was lying or not, but he was sure of one thing — there was no ghost in this diary. Lao Zhou and Xu Yin had already verified that.
"Everything that I've said is the truth." Shang Guan Qing Hong's voice softened. "I know that Jiujiang is your territory. Since you have the power to transfer me to your territory, then I admit defeat."
Shang Guan Qing Hong had just woken up from his coma, and he still had no idea what had happened.
When he opened his eyes, he realized that he was in a sickroom in a strange city, and his nemesis was waiting outside the door.
It was hard for one not to associate that with a situation like that. He was a suspicious person, so it was natural for him to misunderstand some things.
"Stay here and rest. It was the police who helped you with the transfer. It has nothing to do with me." Chen Ge felt like he would not gain anything from staying there. He shoved the two diaries into his backpack and stood up to leave.
"The police?" Shang Guan Qing Hong was left alone in the sickroom. He was still trying to figure out the meaning behind Chen Ge's words.
…
Returning to New Century Park, once he entered the front door, Chen Ge noticed that the decorations were different from usual. Many things had been added. "The holiday season is coming."
All the park employees had left. Chen Ge sat alone in the staff breakroom of the Haunted House.
He locked the door, closed the window, and pulled the curtain. Then, he placed the black phone on the work table.
Swiping the screen, Chen Ge turned to the page where the mission information was. His eyes stared straight at the bloody words in the middle of the screen — Four-star Trial Mission School of the Afterlife (The mission will expire in twenty-seven hours. Warning! After the mission expires, the scenario will never be unlocked!)
"After twenty-seven hours, this four-star mission will no longer be available, and the four-star scenario School of the Afterlife will never be unlocked." Chen Ge raised his head to look at the clock on the wall. "In twenty-seven hours, in other words, this mission will disappear tomorrow night."
His finger moved on the screen, but Chen Ge did not have the confidence to click on it.
After experiencing the 3.5-star Li Wan City, Chen Ge did not dare imagine how scary a four-star scenario would be. The possibility was probably beyond his imagination.
"Zhang Ya is asleep. No matter how hard I call, there is no response. Even though Xu Yin has become a Red Specter, the curse on him hasn't been purged, so his power is greatly reduced. The remaining employees are all old and weak, so they won't be of much use." Chen Ge scanned through all the employees in his mind, and his heart chilled.
When he went to challenge the 3.5-star scenario, all the employees at the Haunted House had been working together, and they had been at their peak.
Now, he was going to challenge a four-star scenario, but he was not as strong as before. How was he going to clear the scenario?
Whenever the countdown timer on the black phone changed, the struggle in Chen Ge's heart would increase.
His finger hovered above the phone. He tried several times, but he did not click on it. "For the sake of safety, I should ask the Pen Spirit."
Chen Ge took out the ballpoint pen that was covered in tape and used the Pen Spirit's prediction power.
"Pen Spirit, Pen Spirit, can I walk out of the School of the Afterlife alive?" Chen Ge asked the Pen Spirit for some comfort. He did not even dare ask whether he could clear the scenario or not.
Moments later, the ballpoint pen in Chen Ge's hand spun on its own, and he wrote something on the paper.
"If you bring me to the School of the Afterlife, I will choose to commit suicide. Compared to going there, committing suicide is a happier option. "
"Do you have some misunderstanding about happiness? Furthermore, is that place really that scary? " Looking at the words on the paper with a frown, Chen Ge was also shocked by the Pen Spirit's' rather die in glory than live in dishonor 'attitude.
"I can only predict a blurry thing, and that's how it feels to me." After the second sentence, the Pen Spirit did not respond anymore.
If not for the fact that Chen Ge knew a normal Specter could not leave their possession for too long, he would have thought that the Pen Spirit had run away.
"The Pen Spirit's prediction has a fifty percent chance of being wrong, so this might be a mistake." Chen Ge picked up the black phone and hurried down to the underground scenario to find the crying statue.
"I have a question to ask you." Standing in the dimly lit bedroom, Chen Ge did not even finish his question. He only said the term School of the Afterlife, and the statue's eyes started to bleed like it had seen something very scary.
"The difference is too big." Chen Ge's Haunted House had two employees with the power of prediction, but they were normal Specters, and they were not that powerful. "If the Pen Spirit can become a Red Specter, then she should be able to become another core of my Haunted House."
Looking at the old ballpoint pen, Chen Ge shared his thoughts with the Pen Spirit, but there was no reply.
"Do I really have to give up?" The mission would end tomorrow night. Seeing the four-star scenario disappear just like that, Chen Ge's heart ached.
Actually, Chen Ge had asked the Pen Spirit before when he was unsure whether the mission was dangerous or not, and the Pen Spirit would only tell him that it was extremely dangerous. This was the first time that Chen Ge had encountered something like this that required him to commit suicide.
"Don't act rashly," he repeated in his heart, but his finger did not move.
Scrolling through the mission page, Chen Ge suddenly saw another ongoing mission — The Story of Left Oculus.
"The mission related to Chang Gu, I've only completed the first part — Theater of the Dead. There are still two more parts that I haven't completed." Before Chen Ge went to Xin Hai, to help Zhang Wenyu complete the suicide victim's wish, he wanted to find a film crew. He had accidentally run into Chang Gu and obtained a very important piece of information — Chang Gu's younger sister, Chang Wenyu, had once entered the School of the Afterlife and survived.
Unfortunately, Chang Wenyu's soul had already disappeared. Her left eye was currently inside her brother, Chang Gu's eye socket. Due to the failed surgery, Chang Gu's normal eye was also affected, and he was almost blind.
"Chang Wenyu has entered the School of the Afterlife and has a student ID there. I should be able to find something from her." Chen Ge did not give up. He decided to start with this mission. "There are only twenty hours left. I have to move now."
Without wasting any time, Chen Ge packed his backpack. He did not rest for long before he ran out of the Haunted House.
After getting into the taxi, Chen Ge took out his phone to call Chang Gu's number, but strangely enough, there was no answer.
"Did something happen to him?"
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