"It's the first time I've seen such a scary haunted house."
"The props are too fake. After walking around, not only is I not afraid, but I even want to laugh."
"Materialists have nothing to fear!"
"I told you that it's boring, why don't you play games in the dormitory, my Kun is already level 80."
At the gate of the House of Horrors in the western suburbs of Hanjiang City, several students rode shared bicycles and left without any reluctance.
Seeing this scene, Chen Ge, who was holding the haunted house leaflet, was quite helpless.
Scary is a technical job, but modern people have experienced various thriller baptisms, and their psychological qualities are extremely strong. Entering a haunted house is like being in their own backyard.
"boss!"
A clear female voice came from behind, Chen Ge turned his head to look, and saw a petite "zombie" in a nurse's uniform running out of the haunted house in a rage.
"What's wrong, Xiao Wan." The girl's name is Xu Wan, and she is one of the extras in the haunted house.
"Those little bastards just now wanted to take advantage of me!" She clenched her teeth tightly and clenched her fists.
It was supposed to be a complaint...
"It's too much, they don't even let the zombies go." As the boss, Chen Ge would naturally help Xiaowan: "I'll go to the park administrator to report the situation and adjust the monitoring."
"Don't be so troublesome. When I noticed that the other party had this attempt, I preempted him and beat him up." Xu Wan shook the blood on the corner of the nurse's uniform: "This is not makeup."
"Uh, there's nothing wrong, girls should learn to protect themselves." Chen Ge wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and glanced at the sunset: "Then let's go here today, there are probably not many tourists, inform others and leave work early."
After he finished speaking, the girl with zombie makeup in front of her didn't move.
"Any thing else?"
"Boss..." Xu Wan hesitated before speaking, and slowly came out a letter from her pocket: "This is the resignation letter from Tao Ming and Xiao Wei, you treat them well, they are too embarrassed to tell you face to face, so just Ask me to hand it over to you."
"They're leaving?" Chen Ge was stunned for a moment, then took the envelope: "Everyone has their own aspirations, so you should get off work early too."
"En, I'm going to remove my makeup."
Watching the cute little "zombie" leave, Chen Ge silently lit a cigarette.
Half a year ago, his parents disappeared mysteriously, leaving only this house of horrors.
In order to keep thinking, Chen Ge quit his job and devoted himself to running the haunted house, wanting to do better.
It is a pity that the times are changing too fast, the haunted house industry is under great competition pressure, and itself is relatively unpopular, and there are still many limitations.
The same horror scene, once seen once, becomes boring again, and constant renovations require a lot of money.
Since a few weeks ago, the haunted house operation has been unable to make ends meet, and the ticket price for a day is not even a fraction of the utility bill.
"I don't know how long I can last."
After snuffing out the cigarette, Chen Ge was about to return to the haunted house when a middle-aged man in New Century Park work clothes came over.
Seeing him, Chen Ge was like a mouse seeing a cat, so he quickly stepped up.
"Pretend you can't see?" The middle-aged man grabbed Chen Ge's shoulder: "Today we'll make things clear, you have been owed for two months for utility bills and venue rent. The above has been urging me, which makes me stressed now. It's huge!"
"Uncle Xu, it's not that I don't give it. It's really difficult for funds recently. You give me another month."
"You said the same thing last month."
"I promise you, this is definitely the last month!" Chen Ge patted his chest with a sincere expression.
"The haunted house industry is in a downturn now, and it can't attract tourists. If you want me to tell you, don't stick to it anymore." The middle-aged man called Uncle Xu looked at the envelope in Chen Singer, and the strength in his hand gradually diminished: "You You're so young, why do you have to be so tired?"
"Uncle Xu, I know you're doing it for me, but this House of Horrors has a different meaning to me. It's a thought left to me by my parents." Chen Ge's voice was low, as if he didn't want more people to hear it.
As the park administrator, the middle-aged man knew very well about Chen Ge's parents. He didn't answer. After a few seconds, he sighed and softened his heart: "I can understand your thoughts to some extent, okay, I'll try my best. Just a few more weeks for you."
"Thank you, Uncle Xu!"
"Don't thank me, you still use snacks to sell more tickets for the haunted house."
After sending the park manager away, Chen Ge went straight back to the haunted house and started repeating his daily work, checking equipment for wear and tear, maintaining props, and cleaning.
"The artificial plasma in the repair room is about to run out, so I have to buy another batch; this passage is tilted inward, maybe it can better block the blind spot of tourists' perspective; if the puppet is scratched, it needs to be repaired; wipe! Where's my craft lamp? Who stole it!"
In the eyes of outsiders, he is the boss of the House of Horrors and a promising young man who started his own business. In fact, only he knows the sadness behind it.
Haunted house is a kind of "horror" consumption. In a horror environment, people's muscles and spirits will be highly tense. Once released, it is like a massage. This method can give people a sense of satisfaction in a short period of time.
At the same time, haunted houses are also a one-time consumption. Many haunted houses on the market use the method of flowing in various cities, constantly attracting new tourists to visit. A haunted house like Chen Ge, which is fixed in a certain place, cannot last for long unless it has a particularly great reputation and can attract people to come here.
It was not easy for him to support him for so long.
Dragging the rotten puppet, Chen Ge entered the repair room. He majored in toy design and manufacturing in college. Many of the puppets and mechanisms in the haunted house were designed by him.
The repairing process is complicated and monotonous, and the skin of the doll needs to be stitched, repainted, and aged.
"Almost plasma, I remember there is still stock in the attic." The haunted house is divided into three floors, the first and second floors are used for setting horror scenes, and the third floor is a utility room.
Pushing open the dusty wooden door, the attic was filled with all kinds of obsolete equipment, most of which were left behind when his parents ran the haunted house.
Seeing things and thinking of people, Chen Ge rarely comes here.
"More than half a year has passed in a flash."
Looking at the familiar equipment, Chen Ge remembered his childhood.
At that time, they were still running a mobile haunted house. His parents took him around in various cities. Sometimes the young couple was busy, so they would throw Chen Ge to the backstage alone, accompanied by various ghost props, and cultivated it from a young age. It also caused Chen Ge to be very courageous.
After all, when his peers were playing alphabet puzzles, he had already started running around holding a human head model.
"It's all memories."
Unconsciously, Chen Ge walked to the wooden box where the relics of his parents were stored. Inside were a rough puppet and a pitch-black mobile phone.
The puppet was the first toy Chen Ge made when he was a child, and he had no memory of the mobile phone.
These two things were found by the police in an abandoned hospital in the suburbs. As for why Chen Ge's parents went there late at night, no one knows the reason.
"It's been so long, where are you all?" Chen Ge picked up the puppet, pinched its face, and sighed softly: "I'll hurry up and find artificial plasma, if I can't survive this off-season, House of Horrors Maybe it's going to be closed for sale."
Chen Ge was just talking to himself, but when he talked about closing the business and transferring, the black mobile phone, which had been silent in the wooden box, suddenly flashed on the screen and emitted a faint cold light.
"What's the situation? Black technology? Supernatural phenomenon?"
If it was a different person, his heart rate might increase, he looked around, and his palms were sweating. In comparison, Chen Ge's reaction was very direct. He picked up the phone, put it in front of him, and started to make a second confirmation.
"I tried this phone a hundred times before and it still didn't turn on. Why did it suddenly start by itself today? It was found from where my parents disappeared. Could it be that they know I'm having a hard time, so they're contacting me?"
Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Chen Ge swiped the screen. There was only one application on the dark mobile phone desktop, and the haunted house was used as the icon.
"It's not the same as I imagined, but this icon is a bit familiar, it seems to be the door of my own horror house!"
Chen Ge frowned and clicked on the app, and a line of blood appeared on the screen - do you believe there are ghosts in this world
Whether there are ghosts in the world is a surreal philosophical question, and it is very difficult for a science and engineering man like Chen Ge.
"There should be..."
Chen Ge made his choice, and after a few seconds, new handwriting appeared on the phone screen.
"What you think is the answer. From this moment on, you will officially take over as the new owner of the House of Horrors. Of course, this is not something to celebrate. In the final stage of the novice tutorial, I want to give it to you. A piece of advice, suicide is the most cowardly act, please work hard to live!"
"The amount of information is a bit large! But why does his second-year-old's speech sound a bit like my father?"
Chen Ge opened the Haunted House app again, and a brand new interface appeared:
The House of Horrors in the Western Suburbs of Hanjiang City
Status: on the verge of bankruptcy
Rating: none
Number of visitors today: 4
Number of visitors in the month: 10
My Goblin Team Member: None
My prop library: none
Achievements unlocked: none
Existing facility scene: zombie resurrection night (bad props, bad actors, no story and logic at all, no screaming index);
Unlockable Horror Scenarios: Midnight Escape (a dilapidated apartment building houses a dangerous psychopath, with scissors and a hammer, he's wandering outside your door, screaming 1 star); the third ward (This abandoned hospital will make strange noises in the middle of the night. As a newspaper reporter, you will go in and find out, and the scream index is three-star); the hearse of death (the hearse carrying the dead is already on the road, if you can't leave within an hour, You will be left in the car forever, screaming index two stars)
Daily Quests: Completing the daily quests in the House of Horrors will give corresponding rewards and unlock more horror scenes.
Haunted House Expansion Conditions: The number of visitors in the month exceeds 100, and the favorable rate reaches more than 60% (after expanding three times, the Horror House will be upgraded to a Thriller Maze)
Horror turntable (consume the fright value generated by tourists in the haunted house, you can turn the turntable): life and death are destiny, wealth is in the sky, there are spiritual fruits that increase lifespan, and there are ghosts full of hatred!
Other features: not unlocked