At 4:30 in the afternoon, Chen Ge was standing alone in the props room of the haunted house. He looked at the table full of things and couldn't make up his mind.
"What do I need to prepare for staying in a haunted house?"
"ID card, mobile phone, power bank, lighter, fruit knife, multi-tool hammer... By the way, this puppet should also be brought."
Chen Ge stuffed the puppet that appeared in front of the mirror last night into his backpack. After confirming that nothing was missing, he zipped up the backpack and walked out of the room.
"Xiao Wan, leave work early today. Come and lock the door later, I'm leaving a little earlier."
"Boss, it's not yet five o'clock, are you going to travel?"
"The key is on the table in the prop room, see you tomorrow."
Seeing Chen Ge looking like she was about to let go of herself, Xu Wan snorted helplessly, dropped the haunted house flyer, and ran into the props room.
"This girl." The evening breeze blew the leaflet, Chen Ge shook his head, picked up a stone and pressed it down: "I hope she doesn't see me on the morning news tomorrow."
Different from the relaxed and comfortable expression, Chen Ge was actually very nervous, and he was restless all afternoon.
Last night's nightmare-level mission opened the door to another world for him, and it also made him clearly realize that the mission released by the black mobile phone does have certain dangers.
"Trial tasks are definitely more difficult than daily tasks. You must be more careful tonight." In order to spend the night safely, Chen Getian rode a shared bicycle to Ping'an Apartment before it got dark.
The mission information only provided a place name. In order to find the Ping An Apartment, Chen Ge combined with the complaint message from nine months ago, and asked while walking. It took more than two hours to reach the destination.
"The apartment building is built in such a remote place, will anyone live in it?"
The dirt road covered with weeds extended crookedly into the depths of the woods. There were no street lights around, and a dark gray building could vaguely be seen in the distance through the sparse tree branches.
On the way here, Chen Ge asked a lot of people, but most of them had never heard of Ping An Apartment. In the end, an old man in his 60s showed him the way and kindly discouraged him. It is very unlucky to say that people have died in that place before, and people nearby will walk around in broad daylight.
Chen Ge couldn't tell how hard it was. If it weren't for completing the task in the black phone, who would go to that kind of place to stay for nothing
"It's 6:50 now, and the mission requires arriving before 11:00 pm. I still have enough time to figure out the situation in the haunted house."
Along the winding dirt road, Chen Ge entered the depths of the woods, and after walking for dozens of meters, he finally saw the legendary haunted house.
The house was surrounded by dark gray walls, and there was only one entrance and exit. The rusted iron doors opened to both sides, and there was a large brand new lock on the door.
"The door is so broken, but the lock is quite new. Wait, what is this?" A piece of white paper was pasted next to the iron door. Chen Ge thought it was a small advertisement or something, but after looking carefully with the light of his mobile phone, he realized , this is a missing person notice.
"Zhang Qing, female, 27 years old, 157 in height, thin, with a black mole on her right eye near the bridge of her nose, likes to wear red underwear... Anyone who knows, please contact Mr. Wang, and I will be very grateful!"
The contact information and address of the contact person were left at the end of the tracing notice. What caught Chen Ge's attention was that Mr. Wang's address was filled with this murderous house.
"It's a bit strange." He instinctively felt that something was wrong, took out his mobile phone and took a picture of the missing person notice before entering the hospital.
This building is much bigger than he imagined, with three floors in the main building, a warehouse and a building similar to a water house next to it.
"The skin has fallen off like this, and it looks like it has a history of at least 20 to 30 years." Although the building as a whole is seriously aging, it is still clean. There is no rubbish on the ground, and all the weeds have been removed.
Parking the bicycle in the yard, Chen Ge entered the main building with his bag on his back: "Anyone?"
The long corridor was dark, and after more than ten seconds, the door near the entrance of the corridor opened a crack.
"Hello." Chen Ge walked to the room, but the owner didn't seem to be willing to face Chen Ge, and the door only opened half a finger's width before stopping.
The lights were not turned on in the house, and Chen Ge could only see a woman standing behind the crack of the door. Her eyes were bloodshot, and she seemed to stay up all night, and her mental state was very poor.
"I want to ask how much it costs us to stay in this apartment for one night?" Chen Ge's voice was very soft, and he tried to make himself seem kinder, but what he didn't expect was that the other party's reaction was very strange, he smiled at him Immediately closed the door.
"What do you mean?" Before he could figure out why, footsteps sounded on the second floor of the apartment, the only voice-activated light at the corner of the corridor came on, and a middle-aged man walked down.
The man seemed to have heard what Chen Ge said before, and asked, "You want to stay with me? How long are you going to rent it?"
"Are you the landlord?" Chen Ge took the initiative to walk over: "I only stay for one night."
"Stay for one night?" The lame man looked at Chen Ge up and down, his eyes seemed to want to see him thoroughly: "Okay, let me see the ID card and pay the money on the second floor."
Chen Ge was about to follow the man to the second floor when there was a sudden sound from the iron gate at the gate of the courtyard. Hearing this sound, the lame man frowned, his face turned very bad instantly.
He stopped where he was, and Chen Ge had to wait.
After a while, a haggard-looking middle-aged man came in outside, wearing tattered clothes and holding a thick stack of leaflets in his hand.
"Wang Qi, I said your girlfriend is not here, if you continue to stalk me, don't blame me for being rude!" The lame man stood in the middle of the stairs, blocking the way.
The middle-aged man ignored the lame man and walked upstairs with his head sullen.
"I'm talking to you!" The lame man pushed hard, and the unsuspecting middle-aged man directly slammed into the wall. The leaflets in his hands were scattered on the ground, and one of them landed right at Chen Ge's feet.
"It's a missing person notice, exactly the same as the one posted on the door of the apartment building." Chen Ge narrowed his eyes, he picked up the missing person notice on the ground quietly, and secretly paid attention to the top of the stairs.
The middle-aged man didn't fight with the lame man. He got up from the ground and silently picked up the missing person notice, like a walking corpse.
"You don't need to worry about him, this man is a lunatic." The lame man waved at Chen Ge, motioning him to go to the second floor first.
"Mad?" Chen Ge glanced at the middle-aged man quietly when he passed by: "It was mentioned in the introduction to the scene of Midnight Escape that a mental patient was mixed in the apartment building. If this person is a lunatic, then he Could it be the murderer I'm looking for?"